"That one word—individualism—is to be the theme song, the goal, the only aim of all my writing. If I have any real mission in life—this is it."

The media fills itself with every form of novelty to satisfy the popular lust for the sensational—anything that provides some diversion from the monotony and meaninglessness of the average individual's life. After the murders, rapes, and squalid sexual escapades of so-called celebrities come the reports of riots, protests, and demonstrations by those who fill their own meaningless lives by "doing something" about what they perceive as social injustices—anything that stands in the way of having whatever they think they would like to have at someone else's expense.

This is, perhaps, the most common sentiment heard and seen expressed since the death of Muammar Gaddafi, a sentiment born of spite and ignorance. There was a time when Americans would never celebrate the death and suffering of others, no matter how deserving they thought the sufferers were, but those were days of civility and decency, days when people did not believe just any lies their government told them.

That is all it takes these days to justify killing endless numbers of people and destroying other country's property and wealth, just the fear someone might commit "unspeakable atrocities." Of course the way to prevent future possible attrocities is to use one's superior military might to begin committing unspeakable atrocities right away.

She was especially not a physicalist regarding the nature of consciousness, especially human consciousness. Her views directly contradict those physicalist views sometimes expressed as, "the brain is the mind," or, as Steven Pinker put it, "the mind is what the brain does."

I'm back, at least partially. My being away this time was not voluntary, and not particularly enjoyable. But I'm mostly healed from having my heart's plumbing reworked, and will begin, slowly, to do some work here.

I should say I am grateful to all those who know the situation for their kind thoughts and good wishes. Most did not know, which is how I wanted it.

Regi is back, at least part-time, because my other projects are still unfinished. They are well underway, and I can probably break away enough to keep both the Independent Individualist and Free Individual running.

In fact, I'll be back in about 30 days. The Independent Individualist and Free Individual will always be here, but for about a month, there will be no new articles or material posted.

If this isn't hateful prejudicial descrimination, I'd like to know what is. Maine legalizing switchblades for one-armed people. Well guess what, I can have a switch blade in Main, because I have one arm--the other one is actually leg. Makes as much sense as this law.

But the Main lawmakers can't help being morons, it's how they evolved. See evolution explains everything, it even explains the stupid irrational altruism that makes them pass laws favoring limb-deprived people. Wonder what people without lips get.

At the beginning of a recently recovered article, Freedom Now, I said:

"Most people really do not want freedom. Most people want security. They want guarantees, assurances that nothing will ever go wrong, that they will never be hurt or disappointed, that everything will always be what they like and what they are used to and they will always be happy."

What possible interest does a busy independent individualist have in the absurd rhetoric of the neocons in their perpetual propaganda to promote war? Well, none actually, but if one holds one's nose, some of it is ironically amusing, such as this absurd article, "Lose in Libya, lose the Middle East."