Human Meme

Do we own our lives? Or are we required to be alive? We share commentary on the wiles and wherefores of suicide in the modern life. What are we owed? Who controls our want for death? Are we allowed to exit on our own terms?

Dramatic Structure demands a secure warp and woof. When you start tugging at the threads of a story -- "I'll take this bit here, and stick it into that bog over there, and take this spindellythang and drop it into this bindleboodle, and hope it will all work out in the end" -- you are risking the integrity of the entire script!

Will our machines rule us, leave us behind, or take us with them? We hold a conversation with you about the nature, and the notion of -- "artificial" intelligence -- and what that means for the uneducated future of humanity in the moral core.

How do we know what we owe? Today, we define, and separate, the courtesy from the policy; and the favor from the exception!

We believe we are living in the Golden Age of Democracy when we are really adrift in the Age of Acquiescence. We find the myths, and the meanings, of manipulating a divided electorate when it comes to convincing the other side to vote against their most sacred, and vested, interests.

Why have we programmed our children to take the easiest path? Let's question the reasoning for the separation of aesthetics into "child" and "adult." Why don't we have one, universal, ideal of what is good and right?

Why do we always know life is good -- when it is too late? We ask why the Good Old Days are only always discovered as old and aged? Why are we unable to realize the Goodness in ourselves in real time?

There's nothing more annoying than a person who cannot celebrate the Art of Brevity while communicating. We share the significance of getting to the point by making your intention clear from the start. Have a plan. Be quick about it. Execute without delay or the exasperation of your subject!

Questions and Answers are never a fine format for knowing. We parlay understanding into the realm of an education being found in the question -- and not the answer. The passing of wisdom is not passive, it must be dynamic to be effective; and parsing a question into an answer is like pressing a box into a circle; it may fit, but it shall not spin.

How many life-changing opportunities are offered in a lifetime? The answer is, "only one that matters." We ask how many of us are able to not only recognize the "once in a lifetime opportunity" -- but then also leap to accept it in total? Some language, NSFW.

"This is not the world I wanted to leave for you." Those final words of Dr. Howard Stein still ring within all who knew him. We consider the legacy of thought, and the embedded actions, others leave in their wake as they begrudge this world.

A Script Professor is a Script Doctor! We share the secrets of a career as a working Script Doctor for the past 30 years. What does it mean to fix someone else's work? What are the pinnacles? Where are the pitfalls?

Labels matter to our children. Some online mothers give disparaging nicknames to their offspring. In this NSFW episode, we wonder about the terrible names some mothers use to insult their kids through false terms of endearment.

Too Long; Didn't Listen: No Agent Needed! We take on the matter of entertainment representation. Do you need an agent? No! Do you need a manager? No! Do you need an attorney? Yes!

Believe in blood, not bytes. We urge you to stop using PowerPoint to present ideas, and instead rely solely on yourself. Your body, and mind, are more than enough to engage other rhythms of beating hearts.

Even in a highrise, there is social separation. Structures divide our social strata floor-by-floor in an urban building to uncover all the ills of social memeing that still separate us straight from the center.

We manipulate the truth through persuasion. We explore the horrible, psychological killer -- GASLIGHTING -- and its effect on the honor, and cogency, of a human community of minds.

We prefer to wallow in the together known, than wander into the wilderness alone. We examine our need to not only travel back in time, but to actually relive what we experienced there, while forever escaping the future. If we find comfort in the repetition of aesthetic, then we must also accept the reality that we are no longer our experiences.

Memory is all about perspective. We uncover the trick of memory and storytelling. Who remembers, and what, defines the discovery of what really happened? Characters have a truth of their own that cannot be redefined later, by a deft and talented, outside hand. This is a story of the conflict of dramatic storytelling between mentor Marshall Jamison, and his protégé.

We may escape this world through the mind of our bodies. We take you on a guided journey into the float of Lucid Dreaming. Find the way to escape the now, and to live, and breathe, in any time, and in any place -- of your willful choosing.

We dream in the world, we live in a dreamscape. We reveal the secret moments of knowing the self, and of understanding the world, that only occur when we actively leave what we know to live in a dream state.

The choice is within us, never outside our stars. We lash together the intricate details of the options we have in life. Do we choose -- or are we picked? How many circles may we create without breaking our initial wisdom? The decision, even the false option, belongs only to us.

Those who need to find you, shall find you! We delve into the memeingful moments of an author's life. Do you write to be read, or do you write to have written? In the examples of J.D. Salinger and Truman Capote, we search for the resonance of purpose, and the reasonableness of prestige in the darkness.

Those who prepare to live -- also prepare to die! We rally to the cry of The Doomsday Prepper who is always scheming to die to survive; and, in some ways, so too, is the faithful Mormon family. What happens when those of us who are not Preppers, or Mormons, also survive the end of the world? Do we all share everything? Can you kill enough people who want to take the stuff you stored? These are the...

Every century, or so, we are all replaced! We wonder if we really understand how to manage our hundred year window on life, or if we waste ourselves, elusively, in the search for meaning in work, and in the hope of connecting with another.