On Medium: Understanding the Horror of Liminal Places

Read on about the “Backrooms” phenomenon and the dread of wasted technology.

On Medium: Art Can Be Both Historically Great and Lame

Here's an article about the Western canon, the problem with postmodern cynics, and the difference between art's historical importance and its psychological impact.

On Medium: Big Tech’s Incomplete Reverence for Star Trek

Here's an article about Silicon Valley, Star Trek, and the travesty of technological progress without secular humanist enlightenment.

On Medium: The Dire Choice Between Two Evils: Trumpistan and Iran

Read on about the difficulty of how decent people should choose in a war between villainous regimes.

On Medium: Monotheists Worship the Wrong God

Here's an article about Western religious propaganda, the reversal of God and Satan, and how monotheists came to be hypocritical in worshipping the wrong divine principle.

On Medium: Sex Is Everyone’s Practical Spirituality

Here's an article about the illuminating difference between bureaucratic mundanity and orgasmic apocalypse.

On Medium: Demystifying the Weirdness of Right-Wing Libertarianism

Here's an article about the authoritarian personality and the surprising coherence of conservative Fusionism.

On Medium: Gnostics Recognized that the Bible Is Satire

Here's an article about how secular humanists should reflect on the possible bridge between monotheism and modernity, formed by existential Gnosticism.

On Medium: Is Modernity Just Rehashed Christianity?

Read on about the apologetic fad of saying that modern secular liberals owe their values to Christian principles and traditions.

On Medium: H.P. Lovecraft’s Satirical Takedown of Islam

Read on about the relation between Islam and Lovecraft's cosmic horror, and why the unconditional surrender to God is dystopian.