At 7:00 am on this overcast Sunday, the last words of Bad Natured were punched onto the monitor’s screen, officially ending its composure. Now the real work begins…
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The end is nigh. I am hoping to have an editable manuscript ready by the end of this month, though I still have to write up a summary chapter. This chapter should be fun to write as I hope to give it fun theme. The query letter is in the editing stages and will get some air time by friends here soon. All in all things are going well, except that I am starting to feeling some bone-deep weariness from the whole affair. I cannot wait to be able to take a little vacation from writing.
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No good plan goes unmolested. Though I was hoping to go through the core chapters at least three times before rewriting the Intro, my brain has decided otherwise, and the rewriting of the Intro has thus commenced. The original Intro is almost laughable as it has nothing to do with the book, and its tone is self-righteous if not silly. All part of the fun I guess. Until the Intro has been reformulated, there will be little time and energy for an essay proper, but hopefully by next week I will be able to offer up something worthy. Ashe.
derek
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Ugh! This editing business is for the birds. I forgot just how twisted this whole affair can be. One minute I am high as a kite, filled with self-praise over some specific passage, only to find myself in a position to fall even farther as I read the next muddled, out of placed, or otherwise ungratifying or discombobulating passage. Hopefully the next couple of run throughs will be less painful. As well, i hope that I will likewise will have the energy to come up with a decent essay or two in the near future as opposed to the cheater posts I have been glossing this blog with. Mercie beaucoup.
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An honest assessment of what men and women find important in their loyalty to one another, as in their sexual relationships, might help to elucidate the veracity of these difficult words. Again, bluntly stated, men expect physical loyalty from their women, sometimes even before they meet; women, on the other hand, expect emotional loyalty from their men. Another jagged pill to be sure, but this is not a flippant statement by any means. A preemptive apology must be offered here for that which is about to follow as the intent here is to disclose an uncomfortable truth and not to aimlessly be offensive. Read the rest of this entry »
“Let us now briefly reexamine the notion that cultural inculcation in fact controls and even alters the perception of all reality. As a culture propagates its ideologies and notions, what it is really doing is reconfiguring the brain’s ability to perceive reality, to see the world, from a social point of view. Cultural inculcation becomes our point of view and is the basis upon how the people under its sway discern existence; hence we are unable to see things from the point of view of another’s culture or even another person’s point of view. Our brains will be programmed with culturally instilled judgments that will tend to be self-serving for the culture in question. Stated otherwise, inculcation will change or modify how a people will perceive reality, and those persons will truly see the world as determined by how their culture defines the way in which the world should be perceived according to the predefined notions of a culture. Maybe a better way to state this would be that culture creates and recreates a predetermined existential viewpoint as the basis for further perception of the people that make up the culture.”
Excerpt from Ch 9 of Bad Natured
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As of today, the last core chapter of Bad Natured has been completed. The inculcation chapter, which indeed proved most difficult, is officially completed. Now comes the fun part: editing. This truly is the fun part of writing, at least for me, as it allows for the tweaking and tuning of the text, much like tuning up a sports car. But more than that, it also allows for some fun and potentially inventive transitions from one concept to the other. Of course, i still need to rewrite the introduction and then rewrite up a summary chapter, but at least no new information needs to be generated. Let the editing begin…
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Reading through the first couple of chapters, I am painfully reminded of the book that i first intended to write. The original book was a rather arrogant ambition, which was to be a book whose purpose was to elucidate my religious system of belief which came about from a syncretism of differing indigenous beliefs. The tone of the first couple of chapters are almost hilarious in comparison with the presently poignant tone that has come to dominate the later chapters. How did this come to be? This book has simply come about from a position of unflinching truth. As the concept of human nature came to be evaluated, many inconsistencies came to fruition, inconsistencies that were dogma to this tangential author. At one point i decided to write Bad Natured as if it were two books in one, with part one the nature of truth and part two the nature of spirit. At some point, the nature of spirit went the way of the dodo as my new found understanding of human nature came to light. Now that I have nearly completed the inculcation chapter, the real work begins as I must come to painfully edit, AKA remove, much of the previously written chapters such that this work will be fluent as opposed to disjointed.
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As I draw closer to finishing up the the chapter on inculcation, it must be admitted that a little trepidation is sneaking in to haunt me as the book proper is coming close to its finish. This last core chapter, which is to be followed up with a summary chapter, has been the most difficult chapter to date. Thankfully, it is turning out better than could be imagined. This chapter includes a comprehensive definition of inculcation as well as the basic founts of cultural inculcation, which of course are the church, the news and the general media, the law, the education system, governmental propaganda, and the unstoppable forces of communication in general. The leveraging forces of inculcation are addressed as well, including legislation, police and the armed forces, as well as the social instincts which serve to control unacceptable behaviors within a community. The use of propaganda and calumny by the government are examined as well, and I have included many historical events where inculcation has been used with drastic effect, such as the Nanking Massacre and the Rwandan Machete Atrocity. My favorite portion of the chapter, though, is found in the contemplations of the Catholic Church’s cohesive forces of inculcation and how they gave rise to the civilization laconically known as The West. The implications of Christian influence in the Occident, and that this influence may be currently waning, is a portentous consideration concerning the future of The West. How will The West fare in the not to distant future? Will it fare at all? From whence will the next phoenix rise? Hopefully subjects such as these and more will be spurred in the reader through the provocations of Bad Natured.
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As was expected, it looks like the last core chapter on civilization and culture will instead be broken down into at least two chapters. As it now stands, the chapters will breakdown as follows:
Chapter 1- Introduction, Chapter 2- Fears, Chapter 3- Barriers, Chapter 4- Human Nature, Chapter 5- Gender, Chapter 6- Opportunists, Chapter 7- Group Formation, Chapter 8- Culture and Civilization, Chapter 9- Inculcation, and Chapter 10- Summary
As the book is already hovering around some 220 pages, i do hope to tidy it up below the 300 page mark. Ashe.
Derek
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