On Medium: Go Deeper than Aldous Huxley’s “Perennial Philosophy”

Read on about existentialism, religion’s prosocial propaganda, and shallowness of the uplifting perennial philosophy.

On Medium: Nihilists are Incomplete Skeptics

Here's an article about how, ironically, the most rigorous, reductive feats of objectification end up re-enchanting nature, so that nihilists miss how skepticism overcomes itself.

On Medium: High Tech’s Threat to Human Pride

Read on about how to navigate the historical cycle in which arrogant or humiliated cultures prevail, and how computers and AI threaten our pride in civilization.

On Medium: The Mundane Source of Religious Concepts

Here's an article about Occam’s razor, the mundane source of religious concepts, and the humiliating comedown for theists.

On Medium: America’s Second, Lopsided Civil War

Read on about why Democratic resistance to Trump's second presidency looks like Bambi standing up to Godzilla.

On Medium: Self-Help Know-it-Alls and the Cult of Happiness

Read on about how individualism is the source of many of our mental health problems, and why the self-help industry should be humiliating to psychiatrists and professional therapists.

On Medium: Atlas and the Burden of Civilized Lifestyles

Here's an article on how the Greek myth of Atlas helps us recognize the resolve that's needed to overcome enlightened alienation and take responsible for the worlds we create.

On Medium: Social Conformity and Psychiatry’s Authority as a Science

Read on for a dialogue on the basis of psychiatric evaluations of mental disorders, and the clash between psychiatrists' scientific status and their deference to social conventions.

On Medium: The Clash Between Conservative Psychiatrists and Liberal Philosophers

Read on to sort through the psychiatrist's conservative propaganda and the philosopher's liberal critique of society's conception of mental health.

On Medium: The Evolving Universe’s Monstrous Character

Here's an article about the clash between physical and evolutionary views of nature’s foundations, and whether the universe is timeless and impersonal, or it has a character befitting its narrative arc.