Wednesday, March 30, 2022

On Medium: The Subterfuge of Neoconservatives

Read on about philosophical elitism, esoteric and exoteric writing, Judaism, the Iraq War, and Leo Strauss’s rebranding of nihilistic conservatism.

Monday, March 28, 2022

On Medium: Is Self-Deception the Bedrock of All Knowledge?

Read on about how the inhuman cosmos negates childlike pretenses, exposing our treasured plain facts as a smorgasbord of distractions, vain conceits, and lies of omission.

Friday, March 25, 2022

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

On Medium: Stoic Pantheism and the Rise of the Alienated Sage

Here's an article that fortifies Stoicism with Existentialism, contrasts Stoic pantheism with an updated, non-anthropocentric kind, and critiques virtue ethics.

Friday, March 18, 2022

On Medium: How Would a Saint or a Prophet Reply to Rude Online Comments?

Here's an article that imagines the mythic ideal of handling toxic online comment sections, and how to cope with the dead-end of trying to excel on a degrading platform.

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

On Medium: Help for the Fake Self-Help Industry

Here's an article that unravels the paradoxes of the self-help industry, and imagines what a sustainable and honourable form of self-improvement would look like.

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

On Medium: The Red Herring of Michael Oakeshott’s “Conservative Character”

Read on about how Oakeshott confuses instinctive conservatism or inductive reasoning with a distinctive politically conservative disposition, and about how the true conservative character affects politics.

Saturday, March 12, 2022

Wednesday, March 9, 2022

On Medium: Are Our Best Practices Evolved or Centrally Planned?

Read on about a conflict between aphorisms, the strengths and drawbacks of free and of centrally controlled societies, and whether liberal societies have a hidden agenda.

Friday, March 4, 2022

On Medium: Erotica and Some Hidden Meanings of Sex

Read on about the degradations of pornography to artsy musings on sex’s absurdity, and the philosophical hope for escape from animality.

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

On Medium: Spoiling “Backyard Church’s” Idyllic Barbecue

Here's an article that questions Christianity's viability in the modern period, despite the attempts by liberal Christians to sanitize and to neuter the religion.