On Medium: Why We’re Killing Off All Wildlife

Here's an article about our apparent role as anti-natural transformers of the wilderness.

On Medium: Proof That Free Markets Don’t Reward The Best Work

What happens when the greatest, most miraculous art is overlooked? What does that say about the meritocratic prospects for capitalism? Read on to find out how capitalism is only as concerned with merit as are the average buyers and sellers.

On Medium: Buddhist Nirvana And The Consolation of Nihilism

Here's an article about alienation, mindfulness, and the annulment of humanistic progress.

On Medium: How “The Startup” Whitewashes the Exploitation of Content Creators

Read on about how the hype of Medium's "The Startup" serves as covert PR for neofeudal tech giants, and sustains the ruse of the creator economy.

On Medium: Assessing the Meaning of Life in Pixar’s “Soul”

A philosophical movie review of Pixar's "Soul," and an assessment of whether that film's life lesson can be secularized.

On Medium: How Pessimists Should Avoid Despair

Here's an article about how philosophical pessimists should be uplifted by pantheism, comedic absurdity, and technological progress.

On Medium: The Telltale Confusions of “The Ascent’s” Submission Guidelines

Read on about the fallacies in The Ascent's submission guidelines and what those confusions say about consumer society and the self-help industry.

On Medium: Death By Expertise: The Decadence of Economists and Medical Doctors

Here's an article about the downside of technocracy, when capitalism sidelines the arts and the values that might check the Machiavellianism that evidently emerges in the highly-intelligent expert class.

On Medium: Why Real Art is Priceless and Most Artists are Poor

Read on about the clash between artistic and business standards, and how the profit motive conflicts with an artist's concern with maximizing the work's quality.

On Medium: Have We Been Conned Into Civilization?

Read on about how we may have clung to civilization despite its drawbacks because of a theocratic con, which could make even our modern defense of the civilized venture faith-based.

On Medium: The Collapse of New Atheism and the Rise of Godless Culture

Here's an article that contrasts the folly of the broken-up, politicized new atheist movement with the cosmicist, promethean heart of a viable atheistic worldview.

Longtime readers may recall my earlier treatment of this in "Clash of the Atheists," and see "Scientism and the Downfall of New Atheism" for another supporting discussion.

On Medium: From Academic To Freelance Writing: Coping With The Culture Shock

Read on how about how capitalist standards have corrupted both academic and freelance writing.

On Medium: How Jewish World-Weariness Puts Christianity and Islam to Shame

Here's an article on Jewish existentialism and the subversive miracles of Ecclesiastes.

On Medium: Mind Cafe's Infantilizing Standards

Read on for a look at some excuses for mediocrity in freelance writing, at the cult of happiness, the fixation of practicality, and the dread of oversimplification.

On Medium: How The Desert Metaphor Shaped Monotheism

Here's an article on how the inhospitable desert served as an extended metaphor for the founders of monotheism, making for a more realistic portrait of God's inhuman character.

On Medium: Animals Can Be Scoundrels Too

Read on for a satirical article about why we can’t take credit for all the world’s villainy.

On Medium: The Masterful Prank of Trumpism

Here's an article on trolling, protest votes, and the satirical power of the GOP’s repugnance.

On Medium: The Gall of Imagining God’s Reality

Here's an article about how when we think philosophically about religion, the creeds become absurd but so do our secular pretentions and ambitions since they're mocked by the unsettling suspicion of God's nearness.

On Medium: How Human Parasites Dupe Us By Running Out Our Clock

Here's an article about how an evolutionary strategy of misdirection unites the frauds of theistic religion and capitalistic exploitation of the masses, by running out our clock. 

On Medium: I’m Starving Because I Can’t Decide Which Groceries to Buy

Another satirical article, this one on consumerism and being spoiled for choice. Sing a jingle for me if you see me sprawled out between frozen food aisles.

On Medium: Why Muslims Can’t Laugh at Themselves

Read on about how desert culture and Islamic history contributed to Muslims' solemnity and oversensitivity, while Jewish history gave Jews a greater sense of humour about religion.

On Medium: The Menace and Conundrum of Trumpian Trolling

Read on about the resentment, gaslighting, and hypernormality in the tribal GOP.

On Medium: The Promethean Revolt And The Cosmic Meaning of Art

Here's an article on the Promethean revolt against the wilderness, art's profundity in the cosmic scheme, and why aesthetic values are foundational.

On Medium: A Pig Installs a Safe Space in a Slaughterhouse

Here's a satirical article, the first in my Medium publication, "Weaponized Comedy: An Arsenal of Satire."

On Medium: How to Find Childlike Wonder in Your Writing

Read on about bliss, flow states, the long road to self-discovery, and how to fulfill our creative potential as writers, by connecting the act of writing to the search for deeper meaning.

On Medium: Enlightenment and Cosmic Horror

Read on about H.P. Lovecraft, existentialism, Eastern renunciation and escapism, and the dark side of modernity: the relevance of cosmic horror to philosophy.

On Medium: The Satirical Gist of the World’s Religions

Here's an article on how the satirical gist of the world’s religions is implicit in the Jewish bedrock of monotheistic religions and in the mystical subversion of worldly illusions.

On Medium: The Direct Democracy of Trump’s Cult

Here's an article on demagoguery, self-restraint, and Republican derangement: how the cult of Trump's GOP confirms the ancient Greek philosophical critique of democracy.

On Medium: The Lure of Chatty Writing

Here's an article on why writing needn't be confessional and editorials needn’t be autobiographical, contrary to the social butterfly's attempted takeover of intellectualism in the name of extroverted socialization.

On Medium: Father Casey’s Challenge to Find the Best Atheists

Here's an article on YouTuber Father Casey Cole's challenge for atheists to be the best they can be, and on the historical ironies of morality, progress, and reason.

On Medium: Why Democrats Are Inept At Politics

Here's an article on how politics as ideological warfare, psychopathy, infantilization, and the dream of post-political technocracy join together to emasculate Democrats.

On Medium: Anxiety and the Condemnation of Foolish Societies

Read on about how the limits of psychiatry are overcome by philosophy and religion, which provide the means of evaluating whole societies, including the self-destructive West.

On Medium: The Triumph of Jewish Comedy Over Monotheistic Brands

An article on making sense of the multiplicity of religions, by contrasting dystopian, monotheistic ones with humbler, less ambitious or satirical religious brands.

On Medium: Writing With Grit Against the Digital Tide

Read on to find the silver lining of late-modern writing’s futility.

On Medium: Beyond the Shibboleth of “Racism”

A politically incorrect analysis of racism and of the hard problem of cultural variety that's ignored by progressives and that should disturb white supremacists.

On Medium: Sex Between Minds: A Human Stamp On Our Animality

Read on about our sexual games of subjugation, the narrowmindedness of intimacy, and the impetus behind the ascetic revulsion towards them. 

This article follows up on "Romanticizing the Crudity of Sex."

On Medium: Buddhism and The Threat of Nihilism

Read on for an article about Buddhist pragmatism and the secular reconstruction of morality, and how the Buddhist's therapeutic coyness with metaphysics flirts with self-defeating nihilism.

On Medium: Mass Hallucination and The Dream of Waking Life

An article on the fictions of conventional wisdom, the fear of transhuman sobriety, and the existential implications of hypnosis.

On Medium: The Tragic Overkilling of George Floyd

My interpretation of the perfect storm that killed George Floyd, including the paranoia, histrionics, militarization, and police humiliation.

On Medium: The Antisocial Implications of Mystical Monism

An article on why we should expect enlightened mystics to be amoral nihilists. If selfishness is based on egoistic illusions, why isn't compassion just as wrongheaded?

On Medium: The Façade of China’s Robotic Wisdom

Read on about the myopia of Chinese prudence and the necessity of nonrational ideals. 

This article follows up on "Why China’s Pragmatism Should Haunt the West."

Interview and Infantilization Article

I did an email interview with a writer, Sarah Simon, who came across my Medium articles on cultural infantilization, and her article which includes a broader discussion of the phenomenon along with my interpretations of it can be found here.

On Medium: The Oversupply and Triviality of All Natural Beings

An article on the naturalization of Plato’s pessimism about nature: scientific dualism, the oversupply of digital content, and the trivialization of abundant being.

You can find an earlier take on this idea in "Horror for the Codes of Creation."

On Medium: Slaves of Religion and The Liberated Victims of Modernity

Read on about our flawed coping strategies in religion and secularism.

On Medium: Transhuman Epistemology: Knowledge in the Cosmic Scheme

Read on about mental assimilation, the illusions of mastery, and the futility of revelation.

On Medium: Mathematics: An Intimidating Game

Read on about how philosophical doubts expose the effrontery of math textbooks, and how mathematical rules are game-like, contrary to the platonic conceits.

On Medium: Secular Dominance and the Endpoints of Interfaith Dialogue

Here's an article on how modernity triumphs over obsolete religions, and on the need for religions to syncretize a viable rival to secularism, neoliberalism, materialism, consumerism, and the like.

On Medium: The Existential Clash Between Childhood and Adulthood

Here's an article on the bittersweet stakes of growing up.

On Medium: Why China’s Pragmatism Should Haunt the West

An exploration of Chinese secularism and reason which lack the West's Christian underpinnings, including our individualistic delusions of grandeur.

On Medium: Foucault and the Bogus War for Social Justice

Here's an article on modernity and the phony wisdom of wokeness, comparing the two types of alleged enlightenment.