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Some Reflections on the Work of Robert Moore and Walter Ong (REVIEW ESSAY)

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Unfortunately, in the case of President Trump in his second term as the president of the United States, I interpret his first 100 days in office in 2025 as showing that he does not have what Robert Moore refers to as a daily "ritualization [process] to help [him] contain and channel [his] grandiose energies." In plain English, President Trump is inflated with his grandiose energies - because he does not have a daily "ritualization [process] to help [him] contain and channel [his] grandiose energies."

Yes, President Trump in his first 100 days in his second term in 2025 manifested his unregulated grandiosity in his extraordinary foreign policy moves that I have discussed in my wide-ranging and, at times, deeply personal 28,800-word OEN article "Fareed Zakaria and Ezra Klein on President Trump's Foreign Policy" (dated March 24, 2025) - in which I also wrote at length about my admiration of the American faithful Christian pornstar Mandy Flores' gorgeous body.

No, I have not written any other OEN articles about the various other appalling things that President Trump has done in the first 100 days in office in 2025 - even though he has done other things that have also appalled me.

So, let me now review the course of my intellectual journey in certain OEN articles that I wrote after Donald Trump was elected by my fellow Americans on November 5, 2024, to serve a second terms as the president of the United States.

Now, after I published my two OEN articles about Robert Moore's work (dated September 8, 2024, and September 17, 2024 - during the time in the fall of 2024 when I was feeling mildly euphoric for about ten weeks), mentioned above, I subsequently first articulated my criticisms of the tragic anti-body heritage of Christianity in my wide-ranging and, at times, deeply personal 28,800-word OEN article "Fareed Zakaria and Ezra Klein on President Trump's Foreign Policy" (dated March 24, 2025; viewed 1,916 times as of July 21, 2025), which I just mentioned:

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In my wide-ranging and, at times, deeply personal 28,800-word OEN article dated March 24, 2025, I mention the busty (39") 5'4" tall pornstar Mandy Flores (born on March 19, 1989; with measurements of 39-24-34) who weighs 117 lbs., a gorgeous faithful Christian, by name 250 times -- once every 115.2 words on average -- as I sing my praises of her gorgeous body in detail. I would now also praise the busty (39") Mandy Flores for her body-positivity and her sex-positivity in her many delightful mom-son porn videos that are available free on the internet.

Mandy Flores started making porn videos that are available free on the internet in 2011 - when she was 22 years old. In addition to making many delightful mom-son porn videos that are available free on the internet, she has also made a few dad-daughter porn videos that are also available free on the internet and a few brother-sister porn videos that are also available free on the internet. (In addition to her various porn videos that are available free on the internet, Mandy Flores has made more than 2,000 custom-ordered porn videos for clients who paid her to make a video in accord with their specifications.)

Because of the tragic anti-body heritage of Christianity, the busty (39") faithful Christian Mandy Flores' body-positivity and sex-positivity in her various porn videos are extraordinary for a faithful Christian woman - and therefore even more commendable.

I would also commend the body-positivity and sex-positivity of many of the exhibitionist women who perform in mom-son porn videos that are available free on the internet.

In any event, in the present wide-ranging and, at times, deeply personal 21,913-word OEN article, I mention Robert Moore by name 116 times - for an average of once every 186.9 words (compared with my mentioning Mandy Flores by name 250 times in my wide-ranging and, at times, deeply personal 28,800-word March 24, 2025, OEN article "Fareed Zakaria and Ezra Klein on President Trump's Foreign Policy," mentioned above, for an average of once every 115.2 words).

Because I said in my wide-ranging and, at times, deeply personal 28,800-word OEN article "Fareed Zakaria and Ezra Klein on President Trump's Foreign Policy" (dated March 24, 2025) that I was singing my praises of Mandy Flores, I now want to say here in the present wide-ranging and, at times, deeply personal 21,913-word OEN article that I am here also singing my praises of Robert Moore.

Now, when exhibitionistic women perform in heterosexual porn videos, are they thereby inviting their male viewers to thrust their idealizing projections of them onto them? Yes, that much is true. However, those exhibitionistic women are performing in porn videos that their male viewers may then subsequently watch at their convenience. Granted, those exhibitionistic women may occasionally receive fan mail from sone of the male viewers. However, when they do receive fan mail, they still are not interacting face to face with their fans, and so they are not standing there receiving their fans' idealizing projections onto them in person.

Now, in addition to mentioning Robert Moore by name 114 times in the present wide-ranging and, at times, deeply personal 21,913-word OEN article, I mention Ong by name in the present OEN article 93 times - for an average of once every 235.6 words. By contrast, in my wide-ranging and, at times, deeply personal 28,800-word OEN article "Fareed Zakaria and Ezra Klein on President Trump's Foreign Policy" (dated March 24, 2025), mentioned above, I mentioned Ong by name 79 times - for an average of once every 364.5 words.

In the present wide-ranging and, at times, deeply personal 21,913-word OEN article, Trump's name appears here 79 times - for an average of once every 288.77 words. In my wide-ranging and, at times, deeply personal 28,800-word OEN article "Fareed Zakaria and Ezra Klein on President Trump's Foreign Policy" (dated March 24, 2025), Trumps name appears 103 times - for an average of once every 279.6 words.

In any event, I have been an Ong fan since I took my first course from him in the fall of 1964 at Saint Louis University. I have also been a Robert Moore fan since the early 1990s.

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Thomas James Farrell is professor emeritus of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He started teaching at UMD in Fall 1987, and he retired from UMD at the end of May 2009. He was born in 1944. He holds three degrees from Saint Louis University (SLU): B.A. in English, 1966; M.A.(T) in English 1968; Ph.D.in higher education, 1974. On May 16, 1969, the editors of the SLU student newspaper named him Man of the Year, an honor customarily conferred on an administrator or a faculty member, not on a graduate student -- nor on a woman up to that time. He is the proud author of the book (more...)
 

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