Read on about the question of who’s more realistic, those who are immersed in social games or the marginalized who adopt a radical perspective?
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
On Medium: The Insidious “Cute Eyes” Defense of Religion
Here's an article about how apologists prey on our instinct to protect childish naivety and playfulness, and how skeptics can hoist theists on their own petard.
Thursday, September 25, 2025
On Medium: The Pedantry of Wondering Whether Trump’s a Fascist
Read on about how words work, how liberals should oppose the far right, and why we needn't fuss over whether Trump is a fascist or only an authoritarian.
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
On Medium: Charlie Kirk’s Epic Trolling of Colleges
Read on about the stark difference between civil debates and conservative provocations, as exemplified by Charlie Kirk's exploitations of the defects of American college campuses.
On Medium: All Worldviews Cope with Life’s Absurdity
Read on about how existentialism levels the cultural playing field, by accounting for how worldviews address absurdity rather than just reason or utility.
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
On Medium: Why Trump’s Fascist Evil Conquered America
Here's an article about how the postwar dynamics of America’s military-industrial complex and the twin governmental fig leaves led to Trumpism.
Monday, September 22, 2025
On Medium: The Neoshamanic Quest Can Solve the Crisis of Manliness
Read on about how the manosphere overcompensates for men’s evolutionary pointlessness, leaving men with a crisis of manliness that neoshamanism can fix.
Thursday, September 18, 2025
On Medium: Toxic Masculinity and Late-Modernity’s Ideal Man
Here's an article about how the men’s rights movement’s overcompensates for the incoherence of manliness, given the clash between civilized standards and evolution's prioritizing of sexuality.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
On Medium: Tyranny is Unspeakable on Corporate Media
Here's an article about how corporate news anchors resort to weak labels like “authoritarian” and “dictator” when criticizing Trumpism.
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
On Medium: Godless Societies are as Irrational as Religious Ones
Read on about transhuman glory, the existential purpose of all cultures, and why even secular cultures aren't grounded in reason.
Monday, September 15, 2025
On Medium: There Are No Conservative Debaters
Read on about the corporate news media’s confusion about whether the assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk was a “debater.”
On Medium: Are People Special from a Cosmic Perspective?
Here's a dialogue on whether secular humanism is consistent with philosophical naturalism, or an objective view of our place in nature undermines the humanist's anthropocentrism.
Thursday, September 11, 2025
On Medium: Tool-Users and the Mastery of Writing
Read on about why you shouldn’t publish if you can’t write well without computers, AI, and the internet, because publishing should be for masters, not students.
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
On Medium: Cultural Ironies and Men’s Expendability
Here's an article about how we overcompensate for nature’s unequal expectations for us, as masculinity copes with men's secondary status in nature, and femininity drags women down from their natural height.
On Medium: Our Maker’s Creativity is Ambiguous
Read on about how we project our longings onto natural transformations, as we prefer order to disorder even though the two are interconnected in nature, and disorder may prevail.
Monday, September 8, 2025
On Medium: The Precarious Role of Metaphysics in Nature
Here's a dialogue on what philosophy adds to science, religion, and art, and the role of metaphysics in philosophy, given the rise of the scientific picture of nature’s creativity.
Friday, September 5, 2025
On Medium: The Acute Meaning Crisis for Spoiled Consumers
Read on about how liberal progress produces a class of infantile adults that lacks a collective mother figure, resulting in an acute late-modern meaning crisis.
Thursday, September 4, 2025
On Medium: The Reign of Civilized Psychopaths
Read on about why Democrats seem so feeble next to President Trump, and how subcriminal psychopathy might be a political superpower that undermines the liberal's faith in humanity.
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
On Medium: The Best Religious Response to Atheism is Two Words Long
Read on about why we must reckon with the existential basis of all cultures, and realize that neither religious nor secular worldviews are fully justified by reason.
On Medium: Religion as Faulty Technology or Disposable Art
Here's an article about the spectrum of artifacts in late-modern societies of abundance, and whether religious beliefs and rituals should be viewed more as tools or artworks.
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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