Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes:

In “The Understanding of Anger & Contempt” is the means to make sense of, and therefore stop, something that is distressing and terrifying Americans now: the horrendous mass shootings. You’ll learn about contempt, what it really is, and its effect—including in our everyday lives. You’ll read a remarkable article by Dr. Jaime Torres on the subject “What Do Men Most Need to Know about Their Anger?” What is explained here should be studied throughout America, including by government officials, so our country can be safe. Read “The Understanding of Anger & Contempt,” the newest issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known.

The commentary by Ellen Reiss begins:

Dear Unknown Friends:

In this TRO we begin to serialize an immensely important, very surprising, scholarly, of-the-present-moment lecture: Contempt Here and There, which Eli Siegel gave in June 1975. And we include here too part of a paper given by Dr. Jaime Torres at an Aesthetic Realism public seminar. The subject was “What Do Men Most Need to Know about Their Anger?”

So we have two matters that the people of America need tremendously to understand: contempt and anger. These human aspects, emotions, ways of mind are affecting people terrifically now. And, in all politeness, I have to say that the so-called psychological experts are fundamentally ignorant about them. Aesthetic Realism, however, does explain anger and contempt—as it also explains beauty and kindness.

The Mass Shootings in These Years

There is the terrible matter of mass killings, which have been so abundant in this land. For someone to go (for example) into a school and shoot children and teachers, that person of course has to be very angry. But he also has to have contempt. So, what is contempt?…Read more