Positive Sociology

We live in a world of haters.  Do you have friends or a partner who brings you down? Maybe you have coworkers who are always complaining about things?  Or maybe you're spending time dealing with the trolls who cruise social media looking to get a rise out of anyone listening.  Whatever the case may be, I'm convinced of two things: 1)There are too many haters out there, 2) We give them  way too much of our precious time and energy. Because, let's face it.  Haters are the worst.  The absolute worst.  They always have something negative to say and they become a drain on our emotional energy.  This distracts us from our goals and worse, it rob us of our most precious resource: time.  It's the one resource we can never get back. Who's been hating in your life?  Identify these people and eliminate them from your daily thoughts and actions.  Or, at least come up with a protocol on how to limit the time and energy you give them. ...

Let me just say: Cormac McCarthy is a damn good writer.  The man can put words to page. I finished "No Country for Old Men" last week and am still blown away by it.  Unlike his earlier and more experimental work (see Blood Meridian), the writing in "No Country for Old Men" is terse and immediate.  He uses simple declarative sentences.  The violence is raw and the tone is apocalyptic.  I didn't want the book to end! We can all learn a lot from McCarthy The book made me want to learn more about the man behind the book.  I dug around a little and found an old interview he did with Oprah.  At one point, she asks him if he's passionate about writing.  McCarthy responds, " I like what I do ."  He says he doesn't understand writers who find the work torturous and then says, " You always have this image of the 'perfect thing', which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve ." I thought this was so ...