“The right brain is happier if the left is keeping score.”

Writing as recreation and therapy by Clark Sorley

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Nationalism

Paul Graham


Unhitched

Nightmare In Perugia

The Producer’s Art

ProTools

Steve Jobs

Auto-tune

Amy Winehouse

Imagine

Murdoch’s Junk

Moral Self Interest

Sex & The English Language

The Joy Of Solitude

Scant Justice

Rock Gods

Futuristic Nature

Adele’s Story

The Deficit

The Royal Wedding

Primitive Morality

Pure Existentialism

We’re No’ Dour

Facebook

Philosopher Heroes

Talking Bollocks

Discounted Blessings


An Eye For An Eye

Vashti Bunyan

Free Will & The Invisible Spiders

Hitchens v Blair

Artist As Service Provider

Rudeness

Elgar’s Nimrod

Clueless About Music

The Digital Economy Act

Nervy Scots

Two Rock Festivals

British Jazz

Arran Initiative

Nuclear Conversion

Pay What You Want

Hip To The Hipster Trip

Pushy Parents

Fantasy World

Uphill Bill

Why File-Sharing Is Ok

How To Listen

The Good Human

Transcending The Tribe


The Gravy Train

Santa Claus

The End Of Great

Forget Copies

Cars & Horses

Major To Minor

Shaping The Future

Side Issue

Maintaining Mythos

Authenticity & The Recorded Work

Lily & The Complainers

Copyright

On Seth Godin

Access v Ownership

Spotify

Context, Stupid

Edinburgh

Amanda Palmer

Whisky Town

An Imperative

The Types

Thick

Radio Bullshit

Long Live The King

Too Cynical

Commercial Death

Tesco

No Idea

Having Perspective

Useless

Seventeen

Virtual v Actual

All Change

Monogamy

No Good

Inequality

Goodwin

Stupid Humans

Antisocial

Being Agnostic

Disappointment

Talking Snakes

Intimacy


Infatuation Still

Cool Or Keen

Alexander Sorley (1921-2008)

Jailbreak

Obama

Corporate Malaise

Pretentious

Heads & Tails

The Death of Cool

Spiritual Friends

Katie

No Greats

Roots

Coupledom

The Scary People

Having Children

Morality

Gnostic Conversion

Man United

Low Synergy

Unhealthy Scots

Aestheticus Humanus

Sex For Money

Capitalism

The Mythology Of Music

Toxic Trio

Rise & Fall

The Noumenon

Gold Dust

Meaning Of Life

The Holy Grail

Frustration

Knowledge & Belief


Tony Benn

Necessity

Joni Mitchell

The Bad Guys

New Women

Capitalism, Altruism & Money

Bullshit Banking

Cynical

Tribute To Tony Wilson

Sartre

Christopher Hitchens

Inadequacies

Love

Memory & Moment

The N-Word

McCartney

Rock Is Dead

Overload

High Bar

Spirituality: A Definition

Feelings: An Imperative

Stop The Sniping

An Inconvenient Truth

John Macmurray

Emotion With Intelligence

Lightweight Layard

Enough

The Ridiculous Penal System

Religious Disorder

Families

Prophecy

Jade Goody & Racism

The Elephant In The Room

Rational Emotions

Scots Untapped


Techies

The "Ism" That Is Alcohol

Corporatists

Mutuality

Men & Women

Beware The Creep

Alleviators

Snobbery

Little Hitlers

Nice Work

Emails & Texts

Absolutism

Ally McBeal

Exclusivity & Online Networks

Limitations

Emancipation

Thatcher

Too Easy

Reason, Morality & Violence

Things I’m Patriotic About

Buyers & Sellers

Same But Different

MySpace

Proportion

Intellectual Property

Sexuality

John Locke

The Music Nazis

Corruption

Sex Drive

Individualism

Coercion & The Optimum State

No Sex

Boxes In The Mind

Music, Money & Sex

Intelligent Design

Boston

Breaking The Chain

In The Spirit Of Wittgenstein

Freedom To Say No

Women & Children

Most Relationships Are Rubbish

Transformation

Answer To John Gray

The Moral Quest

Healing The Human

Education & Reality TV

Music As Inter-subjective

Tablet Of Stone


Man’s Inhumanity To Man

Music For Boomers

Inverse Law

Honesty

Maturity

Deficiency Love

The Right To Die

The Pretensions Of Art-Poppers

Hell Is Other People

Foolish In A Place Like This

Drink & Drugs

A Distinction

Discernment

A Moral Philosophy

A Daft Irony

Usefulness Above Truth

Bad Morality

Nietzsche in Parallel

Battle Ground

No Cinderella

Natively Foreign

Low Expectation

What Need For Music

Feral Bonding

Bad Inheritance

Cause & Karma

Democracy

Systems

Against Family

Karma Convention

The Evolution Of Emotion

Masks

Compatibility

Autonomy

E.I. Manifest

Slots

I Am The Hedgehog

Downloading

Bonding Hierarchy

Fact & Value

Elections

Spirituality & Morality

Banks

Resolution Required

Pain & Pleasure

Robert Burns

The Pope

My Mother

Deviancy

Emotional Intelligence

Against Racial Identity

Money & Credit

Artists & Normality

Defining Spirituality

Music-Making

An Old Fool

Spirituality & Religion

The Street

More Intimacy

Responsibility

Hour Of Need

The Support Economy

Parenthood

The Tsunami

Popular Music

Elitist & Populist

Romans & Greeks

Synergy


Damaged People

Mr Negative

A Moral Travesty

All-Good Goudall

Mistaken Morality

Family Life

Rotation

Sad Indictment

Integration Over Projection

Partnership

Intelligence

Class

Conduct Least Preferable

Demons

Things I Fear

Top Table

Clean Houses

Intellect & Emotion

Rare Breed

Zero Sum

Racism & Free Speech

Motherhood Is The Happy Ending

Stressed Out

Precious Times

An Illegitimate Term

No Moral Intelligence

My Parents

My Solitude

Primary Value

Discovering John MacMurray

Living In The Moment

Bad Clothes

An Ontology Of Value

Fragile Society

A New Morality

Ga-Ga For  Marriage

Ownership

My Relationship With Music

Erica Jong

Negativism & Liberal Democracy

Memoir

Exclusivity & Ownership

No Intimacy Issues

Questions Are Loaded

Facts & Truth

Political Correctness

1964 - The Memories

1964 - The Music

Exclusivity: A Bad Consequence

Faulty Feelings

An Important Job

There Are Some...

Jordan

Impolite Society

Against Authenticity

My Identity Problem

A Prevailing Wind

Ownership: A Bad Mindset

Buzan On Genius

Power Freak

Out There

The End of Collectivism

Art As Commodity

Racism & Exclusivity

Stuck-ness

Love Actually

Other Plans

The Half-Life

Uncomfortable

Science & Value

Independence

Motherhood

A Thankless Task

Meeting Of The Minds

Dogged & Deluded

Borderline

Policemen

Life Lived Happier

Albert Ellis

Added Value

Partisan Scots

The Mystery Of Success

Truth

Satisfying Appetites

Childish Morality

Kilroy-Silk

Sharing Music

Coercion & The Moral Law


Up & Down

The Dark Side

Two Types Of People

Individuals & Their Families

The Real Deal

Framed

Jung & The Problem Of Evil

Towards Neo-Modernism

Killer Breasts

Committed Or Just BeIng There

Ever More Predictable

Questionable Orthodoxy

Diversity & Kenin Malik

Racism

Peer To Peer

An Effort Too Far

A Prediction

Not So Magnanimous

Idealism

My Contradictions

Beware Conformity

Sham Friendship

The Sound Of Fuck You

My Loss Of Belief

My Misanthropy

Subversion Lost

Future Bleak

Model Male

Intimacy: Other Ways

Julie Burchill

Karma

That Scottish Thing

The Disillusioned

The Post-Modern Way

Hack-Work

My Complexity

Coercion & The Big Idea

Stephen Pinker

The Mythical Other

The War

Forged In Blood

Edward Kealey On Studio Engineers

Marie Helvin

The Person

Contact v Solitude

Twelve Philosophers

Unsuitable People

Women & Their Men

Jackson & Bashir

Imbeciles & Paedophiles

The Ontology Of Music

Trust

For The Avoidance Of Grief

Karmic Force

The Badness Of Words

Binary Thinking

The Soul-less Man

Rejoice! Rejoice!

The Common Psyche

The Wrong Trousers

Truth & Language

Iley On Stamp

Difference

Language Problems

Banker Deception

Ground-Shift

Punk & Prog

Manipulation

No Ideology


Relationships: An Alternative

FHM Magazine

Power Unconscious

Attraction: Two Requirements

Cosmic Consciousness

Old Attitudes

Shorts (Dec/02)

Matrix

Shorts (Nov/02)

Authenticity & Talent

Feminists Remember

A Woman’s Place

Sensitivity & Control

Race

To Marxists

Faking It

Power Games

Germaine Greer

Masculinity

No Key Players

Shorts (Sep-Oct/02)

Postmodern Pretension

Martin Jacques

The Creative Life

Jones & Jackson

Criticising The Scots

A.A. Gill On Model Behaviour

Simon Schama On America

Leaders

Shorts (Aug/02)

Objectification

Perverse TV

Shorts (May-Jul/02)

Daniel Goleman

The Age Of Ordinary

Destiny

Patterns

Lost In Music

Sad Bastards

Shorts (Jan-Feb/02)

Idiot Society

Ayrshire

Simon Napier-Bell

Club Reps

Dinosaur Scotsmen

The Jokey-ness Of Celts

Americans & Us


Shorts (Dec/01)

Related

The 1990s: What I Liked

Icons

How Humans Are

McLuhan

Nietzsche

Shorts (Sep-Nov/01)

Pop Takeover

Against Motherhood

The Rubbish Society

The Good Society

Ten Things I Hate

New Commandments

Kylie Minogue

David Hume

G.B. Shaw

Shorts (Jun-Aug/01)

Sequences

Dumping For Monogamy

The Immoral Minority


Shorts (Jun-Oct/00)

John Selby-Spong

Free Will Fallacy

Fallen

Meta-realities

Intellectual Angst

Public & Private

Shorts (Mar-May/00)

Postmodern Man

Liberal v Conservative

Dionysus Ascending

Who Am I?

The Jesus Morality

Women & Relationships


Brown On Burns

Five Problems

Slagging Scots

Static Knowledge

Moral Absolutes

Shorts (Jan-Mar/99)

The Importance Of Agreements

Shorts (Dec/98)

The Essential Wittgenstein

The Moral Nietzsche

The Sceptical Hume

Diana

The Romantic Ideal

Monogamy & Commitment

Kilmarnock Victory

Labour Victory

The Artist

Dublin

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