On Medium: Mass Hallucination and The Dream of Waking Life

An article on the fictions of conventional wisdom, the fear of transhuman sobriety, and the existential implications of hypnosis.

On Medium: The Tragic Overkilling of George Floyd

My interpretation of the perfect storm that killed George Floyd, including the paranoia, histrionics, militarization, and police humiliation.

On Medium: The Antisocial Implications of Mystical Monism

An article on why we should expect enlightened mystics to be amoral nihilists. If selfishness is based on egoistic illusions, why isn't compassion just as wrongheaded?

On Medium: The Façade of China’s Robotic Wisdom

Read on about the myopia of Chinese prudence and the necessity of nonrational ideals. 

This article follows up on "Why China’s Pragmatism Should Haunt the West."

Interview and Infantilization Article

I did an email interview with a writer, Sarah Simon, who came across my Medium articles on cultural infantilization, and her article which includes a broader discussion of the phenomenon along with my interpretations of it can be found here.

On Medium: The Oversupply and Triviality of All Natural Beings

An article on the naturalization of Plato’s pessimism about nature: scientific dualism, the oversupply of digital content, and the trivialization of abundant being.

You can find an earlier take on this idea in "Horror for the Codes of Creation."

On Medium: Slaves of Religion and The Liberated Victims of Modernity

Read on about our flawed coping strategies in religion and secularism.

On Medium: Transhuman Epistemology: Knowledge in the Cosmic Scheme

Read on about mental assimilation, the illusions of mastery, and the futility of revelation.

On Medium: Mathematics: An Intimidating Game

Read on about how philosophical doubts expose the effrontery of math textbooks, and how mathematical rules are game-like, contrary to the platonic conceits.

On Medium: Secular Dominance and the Endpoints of Interfaith Dialogue

Here's an article on how modernity triumphs over obsolete religions, and on the need for religions to syncretize a viable rival to secularism, neoliberalism, materialism, consumerism, and the like.

On Medium: The Existential Clash Between Childhood and Adulthood

Here's an article on the bittersweet stakes of growing up.

On Medium: Why China’s Pragmatism Should Haunt the West

An exploration of Chinese secularism and reason which lack the West's Christian underpinnings, including our individualistic delusions of grandeur.

On Medium: Foucault and the Bogus War for Social Justice

Here's an article on modernity and the phony wisdom of wokeness, comparing the two types of alleged enlightenment.