Here's an article about the nature of Trump's big lies that can't be fruitfully fact-checked, and CNN’s smug pretentions about itself and the state of American democracy.
Read on about how corporate news media like CNN devise fake conflicts with the myth of the undecided voter to attract audiences to their infotainment.
Read on about Psalm 8's anticipation of HP Lovecraft's cosmic horror, the fear of our insignificance, and the cheap humanism that dispenses with existential dread.
Here's a dialogue on environmentalist and secular humanist perspectives on our relation to nature, and whether secular humanism ends up being incoherent.
Read on about humanism, the conservative’s cherry-picking of natural norms, and the naturalistic fallacy of appealing to natural facts to ground human rights.
Here's an article about how lying all the time is easy, but living with the aftermath is hard, in which case being like Donald Trump would only superficially be the easiest thing in the world.
Read on about the ploys for escaping the alienated brain, and how they lead to instinctive cries to a deity and to the indulgence in conspiracy theories.
Read on about the irony and paradox of being attracted to women and simultaneously needing to loathe them on conservative, religious grounds in the Muslim world.
Read on about the strangeness of America's evenly matched political parties, and the corporate media’s role in sustaining the tight race between Harris and Trump.
Read on about how pantheism rather than Aristotle's teleology, panpsychism, or monotheism should help us understand the similarities between plant and animal behaviour.
