I need to present my Naomi Osaka and a couple of other essays as part of a series in which I am transvaluating values. I borrowed the word “transvaluation” from Nietztsche. His bizarre little philosophy. I love it so. But yet it is little; a world collapsing in upon itself into madness and self-annihilation. How could I not love one who “philosophizes with hammer”…that is to say in an effort to destroy idols! The only problem is the atheist’s final paradox from which he or she cannot escape. It is summed up thusly; it is not so much that the…

We broke intellectuals have dangerous habits. In this regard we like to take assumptions, traditional ways of thinking and logic and flip them on their heads….to as it were, see if they can stand on their heads as good as they can stand on their feet. The best philosophies, religions and practices nearly always do so, (that is, are able to stand on their heads just as good as their feet)or not. It was at this point in my intellectual life that I reflected on the White boy that shot up the Asian massage parlors because they had taken advantaged…