Read on about the scapegoating of secular liberal Israel, the wounding of Muslims’ pride, and the deeper reason for the conflict between Israel and Palestinians.
Here's an article that reflects on tyranny, progress, modern alienation, and how Islam might be modernized via its similarity to HP Lovecraft's take on cosmic horror.
Here's an article on how the conflict between mass and elite cultures is often overcome, and whether the co-optation is always degrading and politically compromised.
Here's an article about secret truths, noble lies, the politics of organized religion, and why Christian literalism isn't really the vaunted strength of that religion.
Read on about organized religion, Jesus’s counterculture, the existential depth of Christian hypocrisy, and the battle between God and demonic matter.
Read on about involuntary celibacy, the black pill, and how incels are toxically masculine even as their critique of mainstream society isn't preposterous.
Here's an article that leaves aside the scientistic atheist's refutations of religion, to focus on Jewish culture as a strategy for coping with theism’s absurdity.
Read on about the distraction of religions' rational status, whether religions fulfill their existential role, and the repertoires of two kinds of atheists.
Read on about how modern secular humanism only brings to fruition the human-centeredness that was always latent in religions' historic conceptions of the divine.
Here's an article about the secular humanist's double standard, patriarchy, and how masculine values promote the sociopathic behaviours that enable men to acquire and to exert political and economic power.
Read on about the gross incoherence of the conservative’s worldview, as shown by an attempt to formulate a credo combining traditional religion and libertarian capitalism.
Read on about narrative logic, the return of animism, and an analogy for understanding how a unifying, immaterial self can be inferred from our experience of only our distinct mental states.
Here's an article about Richard Rorty's pragmatism, the positivistic and propagandistic aspects of his views, and the extent to which pragmatism is compatible with existentialism.
Read on about how cultures arise from cults as politicizations of zealotry, and how we can deepen our perspectives by appreciating what’s hiding in plain sight.
Here's an article about objectivity, intentionality (the meaning of symbols), pragmatism, civilizational progress, and how nonfiction and fiction are inversely related.
Read on about Alex O’Connor’s critique of Christopher Hitchens’ antitheism, and whether God is beyond good and evil because he's been corrupted by his supreme power.
Read on about the semantic meaningfulness of symbols, the illusion of mental states, and the revealing contrast between internal and external perspectives.
Read on about worldviews, postmodern relativism and cynicism, and how the mind is like an interface, a set of maps, or a snail shell’s home.
