Real-Time Relationships: The Logic of Love
Real-Time Relationships: The Logic of Love
Real-Time Relationships: The Logic of Love
Front matter
Culture
Philosophy and Intimacy
Religious “Reality”
The Arc of a Relationship
Win/Lose
Trust
Baggage
Love
Love and Virtue
Objective Integrity
Why did you choose me if you don’t even like me?
Reversing Virtue and Vice
Counterfeiting Virtue
Polarization
Zooming Out…
Changing Others
Why We Succumb…
The War of Narrative
Feel the Burn!
Common Stories
The Boxer
The Sadist
Why is this so important?
Honesty is the First Virtue
Relatedness
Intimacy
I Want!
Love is a Verb…
Social Lies: Love, Power and Manipulation
Love and Anxiety
New York, 2001
Love and Ego Identification
Democracy?
Implosion
The Humiliation of Knowledge
Anxiety Avoidance and Relationships
The Principles of Intimacy
Virtue as “Objective Opinion”
Ethics in the Service of Evil
Ethical Attacks
Culture and Objectivity
Why We Are Talking About Culture…
The Costs of the Truth
So – Why Speak?
The Goal
Thoughts Precede Emotions
Emotions and Control
Thoughts and Frustration
Choose Your Thoughts, Choose Your Feelings…
The Impossibility of Control…
My Best Friend and My New Girlfriend
Control versus Curiosity
Using Others
Anxiety and Control
The Slavery of Childhood
Power and Liberty
Power and Family
The Empiricism of Emotions
Propaganda and Motivation
Follow the Benefit…
Culture, Propaganda and Exploitation
The Alternative to Grudging Compliance…
The Hypocrisy of “Consideration”…
RTR and Empiricism
Barriers to the Truth
Speak the Truth
Conclusions and Facts
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Avoiding Mythology
“Inflicting” Emotions
Quality of Service
Identification and Self-Expression
Feeling Your Feelings
Your First Feeling…
Emotions and Exploitation
Dodging Defences
Typical Defences
the Conversation
Your beautiful world awaits – but not forever…
Conclusion
Real-Time Relationships: The Logic of Love
Author
Stefan Molyneux
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Front matter