Idealism and Practicality: How Can a Man Have Both?

Including a discussion of the great anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski and his Diary in the Strict Sense of the Word.

Originally presented in an Aesthetic Realism Foundation seminar, October 2005, this paper explains the division in a person between being "practical" and "idealistic" and how Malinowski went after solving that division in his anthropological functionalism.

What Big Mistakes Do Even Smart Men Make?—with a consideration of the African story "Maliane and the Water Snake"

"Maliane and the Water Snake" is a traditional story of the Basotho people of Southern Africa. We see how eminently relevant it is to men today, as I discuss my own life and one particular, important Aesthetic Realism consultation of a man of this time.

How Much Feeling—and What Kind—Should a Man Have?

Discussing My Life, the Life of Fusiwe, a Head Man of the Yanomami People, and Men of the United States   Part 1  |  Part 2  |  Part 3

What Makes a Man's Life Large or Small?

The Life of Charles Darwin and Men Today Part 1  | Part 2

About the Ethical Unconscious  The myth of the flood; discussing anthropology and the anthropologist.

See the page titled " How Aesthetic Realism Opposes Racism." The practical and deep articles on the Web include, too, "On Racism & How to End It" by Nancy Huntting; Allan Michael's "It Is In Contempt That the Root of Racism Lies"; Alice Bernstein's "Poems by Eli Siegel about Martin Luther King and America" and the book she edited: Aesthetic Realism and the Answer to Racism. Other articles include, "The Genome & Equality"; "Words, Truth, & the Confederate Flag"; "Fascism, Understood At Last!"; "Aesthetic Realism: The Solution to Racism"; "Contempt, the Cause of Racism"; "Queen's Visit to Amritsar" by Christopher Balchin. And articles by New York teachers who show how the standard curriculum, K-12, can be used to encourage kindness include: "Prejudice Changes to Respect" and "Students Learn, Prejudice Is Defeated!"