This article is about whether Trump is evil or just mentally ill. Mustn't he be both?
This article is about our preference for the social Darwinian, pseudoscientific, totalitarian and infantilizing pablum of the self-help industry to the harsh truths of Western philosophy.
This article is about how basic history deflates the monotheistic myths, and it's a reworking of a longer article by the same title.
How would a cynical future historian interpret our present collective behaviour? Read this article to explore some possibilities.
This article explains why the nature of reality is likely to be shocking and subversive.
This article is about our collective blame for Trump's rise to power, and how humankind as a whole is at least as narcissistic and monstrous as Trump.
This article is about the inevitable unworkability of moral or religious principles, because of their basis in myths and fictions. So if we're moral, we end up lying to ourselves and if we're unprincipled, we lie to others to avoid being cast out of society. Either way, fictions rule.
This article is about how we're disinclined to be moral in our private life, because we assume that modern society automates progress.
Why Write Anything Anymore? This article is about how the internet trivializes all its contents and how something similar happens in large societies, since civilization trivializes the members of its population. So why create content? And why go on living as a stranger?
This article is about how the covenant of faithfulness is the primitive, animistic essence of religious faith, and how secular progress entails similar faith in magic.
