On Medium: Where is Trump’s Impact on the Self-Help Industry?

Read on about whether we should all be striving to be supervillains now.

On Medium: The Perennial Clash Between Normalizers and Radicals

Here's an article about the underlying historical dynamic of social conformity and the prophet’s apocalypse.

On Medium: The Horror of Being a Singularity

Read on about the amorality of Buddhist enlightenment and the nihilistic nature of enlightenment.

On Medium: Who Best Represents Humanity, Winners or Losers?

Here's an article about the clash between the well-adjusted and alienated perspectives on life.

On Medium: The Merry Consumer’s Resentment Towards Intellectuals

Here's an article about the self-help industry’s sophistical slander against high intelligence.

On Medium: The Hysteria of Cosmic Horror in our Terrestrial Romper Room

Here's an article about the risks of existential philosophy and the benefits of ordinary life.

On Medium: Friendship is Social Engineering for the Self-Help Crowd

Read on for a critique of the self-help industry and specifically Dale Carnegie’s foundational advice on how to increase profits by being friendly at work.

On Medium: The Melancholia Industry for the Rest of Us

Read on about how self-help consumerism is for some and visionary art is for others.

On Medium: Improve Yourself by Earning Melancholy

Here's an article about the happiness industry and the countercultural obligation to maximize enlightening alienation, not childish contentment.

On Medium: Turn Your Cynicism Into Wonder

Read on about how to recover the realization that all things are fundamentally strange and sacred, and how cynicism can be converted into wonder.

On Medium: The Disgrace of the Happy Adult

Here's an article that critiques the self-improvement and happiness industries, and asks what’s better than joy and contentment in an unjust, absurd world.

On Medium: Corporations Are Our Superheroes

Read on about how large corporations infantilize consumers and spare them late-modern cynicism, effectively rescuing them from the downside of the postmodern condition.

On Medium: Bob Ross’s Mantras Tame Cthulhu

Read on about the Lovecraftian view of nature, and the secret of Bob Ross’s cult status as a painter of “happy” landscapes.

On Medium: The Myth of the Tranquil Sage

Read on for a dialogue on whether philosophy can make you happy, or whether philosophy is countercultural, so it alienates neo-prophets with subversive insights.

On Medium: The Philosopher’s Inner Struggle

Here's an article about why the search for truth is opposed to the desire for happiness, and how the countercultural philosopher struggles with that conflict.

On Medium: The Meeting of Alien and Deluded Minds in Mahayana Buddhism

Read on about the clash between mysticism and pragmatism in the Lotus Sutra, and Buddhism's double truth doctrine for the enlightened and the unenlightened.

On Medium: The Counterproductive Love of Wisdom

Here's an article about the philosophy's downside, as shown by its history and social context, and whether philosophy's redeemed by some overriding advantage.

On Medium: Is God the All-Powerful Quantum Vacuum?

Here's a dialogue on the philosophical implications of a quantum mechanical view of nature, and the prospects of happiness for quantum resonances.

On Medium: Escaping Cosmic Dismay with Feel-Good Platitudes

Read on about a fallacy of gaslighting optimism that's based on dire premises, a sentimental fallacy found in what passes for philosophy on Instagram.

On Medium: Should the Masses be Taught Philosophy?

Read on for a dialogue on the need for reason’s integration with intuition, and whether philosophers should be elitists or popularizers in dealing with the public.