Read on about oscillators, the brain's insufficiency, and how consciousness must be an amplification of nature's already pantheistically enchanted condition.
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
On Medium: The Farce of Fact-Checking a Hyperreality
Here's an article about the nature of Trump's big lies that can't be fruitfully fact-checked, and CNN’s smug pretentions about itself and the state of American democracy.
On Medium: The American Myth of the “Undecided Voter”
Read on about how corporate news media like CNN devise fake conflicts with the myth of the undecided voter to attract audiences to their infotainment.
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
On Medium: The Cosmic Horror in Psalm 8
Read on about Psalm 8's anticipation of HP Lovecraft's cosmic horror, the fear of our insignificance, and the cheap humanism that dispenses with existential dread.
Monday, October 21, 2024
On Medium: Is Progress Wise and Sustainable?
Here's a dialogue on environmentalist and secular humanist perspectives on our relation to nature, and whether secular humanism ends up being incoherent.
Thursday, October 17, 2024
On Medium: Thomas Paine and the Perils of “Natural Rights”
Read on about humanism, the conservative’s cherry-picking of natural norms, and the naturalistic fallacy of appealing to natural facts to ground human rights.
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
On Medium: The Ecstasy and Agony of Being Donald Trump
Here's an article about how lying all the time is easy, but living with the aftermath is hard, in which case being like Donald Trump would only superficially be the easiest thing in the world.
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
On Medium: Why Even Atheists Cry Out to God
Read on about the ploys for escaping the alienated brain, and how they lead to instinctive cries to a deity and to the indulgence in conspiracy theories.
Monday, October 14, 2024
On Medium: Why do Conservative Muslim Men Hate Women?
Read on about the irony and paradox of being attracted to women and simultaneously needing to loathe them on conservative, religious grounds in the Muslim world.
Thursday, October 10, 2024
On Medium: America’s Odd History of Close Elections
Read on about the strangeness of America's evenly matched political parties, and the corporate media’s role in sustaining the tight race between Harris and Trump.
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