Tuesday, September 2, 2025
On Medium: AI Slop and the Artist’s Struggle
Here's an article about the corporate prioritizing of output over process, and the implications of consumers' devaluing of the artistic process.
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Writing
Thursday, August 28, 2025
On Medium: Spot the Difference Between Honest and Dishonest Writing
Read on about how some nonfiction writers aren't trying to be truthtellers, and how to spot the difference between the two.
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
On Medium: Femininity and the Humanist Restoration of Goddess Culture
Here's an article about the search for women’s authentic self-expression, a search that would bypass the patriarchal conceptions of womanliness.
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
On Medium: The Clash Between Metamodernism and Existentialism
Here's a dialogue on John Vervaeke’s scientific reconstruction of spirituality, and the existential insight that people, unlike impersonal animals, inevitably experience alienation.
Monday, August 25, 2025
On Medium: The Engines of Cosmic Wildness
Read on about how quantum mechanics and natural selection are some drivers of nature’s headless body, giving substance to the claim that nature is wild.
Thursday, August 21, 2025
On Medium: When Conservative Jewish Rabbis Hide their Atheism
Here's an article that criticizes Reconstructionist Judaism and Rabbi Harold Kushner’s incoherent argument against the reverence for technology.
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
On Medium: The Corporate Source of Social Media Sophistry
Read on about how busy consumers must choose between infantilizing infotainment and honourable philosophical and artistic content.
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
On Medium: Must Religions be Lamely Theistic to be Socially Useful?
Here's a dialogue on the sociology of religion, secular humanism’s prospects as an alternative faith, and whether the religions that bind society must be lamely theistic.
Monday, August 18, 2025
On Medium: The Incoherence of Manliness
Read on about why debating who’s manly is a fool’s errand because of the incoherent standards that arise from very different points in our evolutionary history.
Friday, August 15, 2025
On Medium: Trumpism and the Cthulhu Antichrist
Read on about what we should learn from the flagrancy of Trumpian evil, and why liberalism should be grounded in existential humour.
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