Monday, July 7, 2025

On Medium: Is Civilisation Doomed Without Religion?

Read on for a dialogue on secular faith, postmodern meaning in a godless cosmos, and whether a secular humanist society can sustain itself in the long run.

On Medium: The Scientific Whitewashing of Nature

Here's an article on how scientists are caught between nature’s monstrousness and their humanistic ethos, so they're tempted to whitewash existential facts in their popularizations.

Thursday, July 3, 2025

On Medium: Science Made Theism Archaic

Read on about the simple dynamic that makes most religions preposterous, as science undermines the intuitions that sustain the vain personification of ultimate causes.

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

On Medium: How Objective is Science?

Read on for a dialogue on structural realism, the limits of objectivity, and the potential for neo-animistic scientific projections onto nature.

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

On Medium: What’s Behind Big Tech’s Cult of Transhumanism?

Read on about the philosophical issues that the big tech billionaires and their fad’s propaganda ignore by highlighting the role of revolutionary technologies.

Monday, June 30, 2025

On Medium: The Gods of Philosophers and the Unwashed Masses

Read on about the difference between the God of philosophers and the God of average religious folks, and the problem with Bishop Barron’s dismissal of New Atheism.

Thursday, June 26, 2025

On Medium: Jesus’s Counterculture and the Christian Abomination

Read on about the meaning of those who are “poor in spirit,” according to the Beatitudes, and how that divides the initial Jesus movement from the later organized religion.

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

On Medium: Scientists’ Mathematical Confusions about Natural Necessities

Here's an article about the need to pivot from quaint reassurances to cosmic horror, and how the emphasis on math in the hard sciences disinclines us to make that pivot.

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.

Monday, June 23, 2025

On Medium: What is a Human Body if the Universe Must be Disembodied?

Here's an article about the cosmic perspective, the conventional use of reassuring illusions, and the paradox of our apparent embodiment in a necessarily disembodied universe.