Thursday, February 24, 2022

On Medium: Jordan Peterson’s Muddled Worldview

Read on about evolutionary psychology, religious ideals, the revolt against nature, and the incoherence of Jordan Peterson's worldview.

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

On Medium: The Atheist Writer’s Conundrum in Engaging Religious Commenters

Here's an article about a downside of not having an atheistic playbook or authoritative scripture that script's the atheist's life and is liable to relieve all of his or her doubts.

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

On Medium: How Trumpism Reveals the Black Hole of Conservatism

Here's an article about political theater, the stakes of modernity, and how Trumpism is an aberration only in that this populism dispenses with the conservative's pleasantries. 

Thursday, February 17, 2022

On Medium: Should You Believe Jesus Was Historical?

Here's an article about historians’ consensus, charitable readings of ancient sources, reasonable doubts, and the Christ myth theory.

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

On Medium: How All Conservative Policies Stem From Social Darwinism

Read on to see through the smokescreen of conservative rhetoric by recognizing the social Darwinian underpinning of all conservative policies.

Saturday, February 12, 2022

On Medium: Is The Truth Necessarily Good for Us?

Here's an article about nature’s monstrousness, existential revolt, John Vervaeke on platonic wisdom, and whether we should conform to nature or create an alternative world.

Thursday, February 10, 2022

On Medium: The Impure Jewishness of Christianity’s Origin

Read on about syncretism, ancient satire, the Christ myth theory, and the Hellenistic and Egyptian influences on ancient Judaism and thus on Christianity's origin.

Wednesday, February 9, 2022

On Medium: The Charade of Intellectual Conservatism

Read on about social Darwinism, the hollowness of intellectual conservatism, and the facades of Edmund Burke, William F. Buckley Jr., and Tucker Carlson.

Monday, February 7, 2022

On Medium: Is Life an Accident or the Result of Monstrous Causes?

Here's an article about what it means to ask whether life is an accident. Are there are any real accidents in nature? And would a godless natural order be reliable and reassuring?

Thursday, February 3, 2022

On Medium: The Mythic Core of the Christian Narrative

Here's an article about Orphism, Jainism, Shamanism, the "V" trajectory, and why detailed parallels between the rising and dying god myths are irrelevant to the Christ myth theory.

Wednesday, February 2, 2022

On Medium: The Deliberate Shallowness of “Writers’ Blokke”

Read on about why popular publications ban criticism and infantilize their audience, catering to the demand for shallow entertainment on the web.

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

On Medium: The Ancient Cold War Against The Alienated Superrich

Read on about degrees of freedom, invisible dominators, and the wealthy class's temptation of schadenfreude: how the superrich are bound to be alienated from the working class.