Wednesday, November 13, 2024

On Medium: The Bitter Ironies of Historical Progress

Here's an article about how we degrade and doom our descendants by overcoming harsh environments, and the humiliating cycle of historical ups and downs that results from "progress."

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

On Medium: Donald Trump is a Nietzschean Hero

Read on about the core of why Trump’s victories are so disheartening, from a Nietzschean perspective that re-evaluates the so-called worst and best members of society.

Monday, November 11, 2024

On Medium: Buddhas are Nihilist Observers, Not Compassionate Saints

Read on about the incoherence of the standard Western conception of Buddhism, and why enlightened Buddhists would be unattached even to selfless or moral desires.

Thursday, November 7, 2024

On Medium: The Atheistic Relevance of the World’s Many Religions

Here's an article about a Catholic apologist’s obfuscation of the problems with monotheism, and the atheistic relevance of the fact that there are many religions.

On Medium: A Dialogue on Whether Societies are Built on Infinite Relations

Here's a dialogue I had with Pierz Newton-John about the implications of late-modern science for humanist values: is egoism as naïve as the Newtonian conception of atoms, if metaphysically there are only relations, not things?

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

On Medium: Trump’s Second Term Gifts Liberals a Dark Night of the Soul

Read on about a silver lining of the Trumpian apocalypse, as liberals must forge a sustainable humanist mission that forestalls the blowback of right-wing populism. 

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

On Medium: Which Lives are Best-Lived or Wasted?

Read on as I question Joan Didion’s advice on seizing the moment, and consider the difference between rich, full and wasted lives.

Monday, November 4, 2024

On Medium: The Scientific Threat to the Consumer’s Atomistic Ethos

Read on about whether the world is made of relations rather than things, and whether a relationalist metaphysics undermines the liberal values of individualism.

Sunday, November 3, 2024

On Medium: A Blockheaded Bureaucracy’s Futile Mischief

Read on about the gauntlet of self-publishing anthologies of web content on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing.