On Medium: How Civilization Devours Nature like a Black Hole

Here's an article about the divide between scientific and social laws, the humanization of nature, and the unnaturalness of our progress in the cosmic wilderness.

On Medium: How a Positive-Thinking Self-Help Writer Deals with Criticism

Read on for my response to Alberto Garcia's apparent excuses for his lack of response to my takedown of his lame worldview of eternal positivity.

On Medium: False Hope and the Secret of Superstardom

Read on about benign and parasitic social dominators in the wild, religion, and popular culture, and why fans are encouraged to worship celebrities even in a rigged market.

On Medium: The Bizarre Journalistic Pretense that All Oligarchs are Russian

Read on about how the corporate media’s journalistic clichés and Orwellian obfuscations propagate disinformation and set the Overton window about the extent of oligarchy.

On Medium: Why You Should be Haunted by Nature’s Physicality

Here's an article about Animism 2.0, technoscience's re-enchantment of nature's physicality, the enslavement of the cosmos, and the grotesqueness of modern socialization.

On Medium: Is the Search for Truth a Game?

Read on about theories of truth, the postmodern condition, the pragmatic and game-like aspect of knowledge, and the terrors beyond our cognitive sandboxes.

On Medium: Why Conservatives are Better Than Liberals at Politics (and Why That’s Not a Compliment)

Here's an article that assesses the strengths and weaknesses of American liberals and conservatives, and how they matter to Machiavellian politics and to the abortion issue.

On Medium: The Sophistical Fiasco of Positive Thinking

Here's an article that disposes of some self-help ads for the happiness industry, and shows the difference between philosophical inquiry and sophistical propaganda.

On Medium: Christianity’s Gross Expropriation of Judaism

Read on about the New Testament’s Orwellian temerity, and about one of Christianity's less appreciated sins against aesthetic and ethical standards.

On Medium: The Veiled Collusion of the Arts and Sciences

Here's an article about how those academic disciplines are unlikely partners in the progressive domestication of the wilderness.

On Medium: Why John Vervaeke Dances Around the Question of Life’s Meaning

Read on to sort through spiritual charlatanry, self-delusion, alienation, Neoplatonism, and the objective cause of the meaning crisis.

On Medium: The Universe's Monstrous Character

Read on about animism, pantheism, cosmicism, the universe's zombie-like character, and the paradoxes and horrors at the root of the numinous.

On Medium: The Twin Cults of Trumpism and Wokeness

Read on about turbocharged consumerism and the mystery of why the twin political cults of Trumpism and Wokeness arose almost simultaneously in the United States.

On Medium: The Miraculous Brute Fact of the Natural Order

Read on about scientistic confrontations with the metaphysical status of natural laws, and about the unavoidable path from atheism to pantheism.