Invitation to "The Stoic"

I have recently completed my book, "The Stoic".  I am looking for readers to read it on the closed blog I have created solely for this purpose (I have the proof-reading covered).  The only obligation on your part is an honest critique of the book as you read it. If you are interested in reading this challenging work, please reply to TVA with a valid email address, which I will then apply to the blog as a permitted viewer.  If you are afraid of giving out your usual email address to a stranger, I encourage you to create a fake Gmail (click on to create account) account to forward to me.  This offer will remain open until I have at least 10 readers.  I hope you will take me up on this offer and I hope you enjoy "The Stoic".   

"O brave new world that has such people in't."

Re: Romney and voter coercion. There is a consistent strain to the campaigns this season: the end justifying the means. Depending on whose side you’re already on, it’s a good thing or a very bad thing, which does little to expand the appeal of either side to undecided voters, who remain, largely, undecided even at this late date. The problem with this lack of ethics is, when it’s all said and done, someone will be governing this country having little more than the support of the group they started out with. This idea of pushing the limits of legality to the fine print is transcendent in our society, existing, not only in our political process, but in business and even in our personal dealings with each other. Thoughts of the lasting moral and ethical failings of these actions fall to the expediency of the moment, leaving in their wake a lack of faith in our institutions and each other. Even as I write this, I know people will read this and think it’s an unsophisticated and quaint notion, that we have some duty to each other to be better than our basest instincts, and, yet, we each sit there alone at times and wonder how we have gotten to this point of grand societal dysfunction. We typically blame our leaders for this but we have some complicity for allowing ourselves to be led in this manner, by allowing ourselves to be bought too easily by the emotional appeal instead of the intellectual appeal. At this point I planned a long digression into Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” and how I often feel like “the Savage” character taken from that novel but no one reads much more than “People” these days, so what’s the point? Besides, “the Savage” hangs himself in the end and I’m just not going to do that. So, voter coercion? Hells yeah!!!

Ps. Sorry about not giving a spoiler alert about the end of “Brave New World” but now you don’t have to read it. So I’m actually doing you a favor. I got what I wanted from Huxley and threw the rest away. Screw him for being a victim.

Just trying to play along…