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."
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."
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.
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."
Read on about how philosophical doubts expose the effrontery of math textbooks, and how mathematical rules are game-like, contrary to the platonic conceits.
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.
An exploration of Chinese secularism and reason which lack the West's Christian underpinnings, including our individualistic delusions of grandeur.
Here's an article on modernity and the phony wisdom of wokeness, comparing the two types of alleged enlightenment.