Thursday, January 16, 2025
On Medium: God’s Pearls Cast Before Human Swine
Here's an article about how the notion of divine revelation makes no sense since God would just be casting the pearls of his wisdom before human "swine."
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
On Medium: Can Humanism Solve the ‘Meaning Crisis?’
Read on for a dialogue about whether secular humanism has the resources to address the existential meaning crisis of modernity.
On Medium: A Backdoor Solution to the Hard Problem of Consciousness
Read on about a pantheistic reframing of the mystery of subjectivity, and some Western biases that make consciousness seem so bizarre.
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
On Medium: Why Conservatives Only Grudgingly Approve of Modernity
Read on about the essential difference between conservatism and liberalism, and why conservatives should be grateful when liberal institutions go wrong.
Monday, January 13, 2025
On Medium: Who has the Best Takedown of Toxic “Wokeness”?
Here's a dialogue on the best grounds for criticizing some social justice advocates’ tribal distortion of liberalism: Christianity or secular humanism.
Thursday, January 9, 2025
On Medium: Family Values and Individualism: The Conservative’s Hodgepodge
Read on about how the conservative's resort to familism preserves medieval prejudices and elite psychopathy, and conflicts with the individualism needed for capitalism.
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
On Medium: The Peril of Taking Comfort in Alien Norms
Read on about how routines reassure us, even as this paradigm is set by the paranoid fear of nature's wild reality that surpasses our self-serving inductive generalizations.
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
On Medium: The Capitalist Tyranny of Extraversion
Read on about how the social preference for the young over the old, men over women, or extraverts over introverts amounts to a structural cause of life’s unfairness.
Monday, January 6, 2025
On Medium: Sexual Intimacy was the First Holy Ground
Read on about how sex’s prominence in the earliest, Mother Goddess religions deflates theism since theological absurdities derive their mystique from mundane conflicts.
Friday, January 3, 2025
On Medium: Hanzi Freinacht and the Apocalypse of Modern Enlightenment
Here's an article that reckons with the pseudoproblems of metamodernists and explains the difference between overcomplicated and realistic views of postmodernity.
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