Wednesday, October 30, 2024

On Medium: Blame Effete Democrats’ Hollowness if Trump Beats Harris

Read on about why Democrats must understate the threat Trump poses, in calling him a mere "danger" because they laid the groundwork for the arrival of Trump's fascism.


On Medium: The Sordid Reasons Why Trump Might Win the 2024 Election

Read on for an unvarnished look at America’s political dynamics, including Trump's strengths and Harris's weaknesses that might lead to a second Trump presidency.

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

On Medium: Pygmy Marmosets Hold the Secret to Consciousness

Read on about oscillators, the brain's insufficiency, and how consciousness must be an amplification of nature's already pantheistically enchanted condition.


Wednesday, October 23, 2024

On Medium: The Farce of Fact-Checking a Hyperreality

Here's an article about the nature of Trump's big lies that can't be fruitfully fact-checked, and CNN’s smug pretentions about itself and the state of American democracy.

On Medium: The American Myth of the “Undecided Voter”

Read on about how corporate news media like CNN devise fake conflicts with the myth of the undecided voter to attract audiences to their infotainment.

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

On Medium: The Cosmic Horror in Psalm 8

Read on about Psalm 8's anticipation of HP Lovecraft's cosmic horror, the fear of our insignificance, and the cheap humanism that dispenses with existential dread.

Monday, October 21, 2024

On Medium: Is Progress Wise and Sustainable?

Here's a dialogue on environmentalist and secular humanist perspectives on our relation to nature, and whether secular humanism ends up being incoherent.

Thursday, October 17, 2024

On Medium: Thomas Paine and the Perils of “Natural Rights”

Read on about humanism, the conservative’s cherry-picking of natural norms, and the naturalistic fallacy of appealing to natural facts to ground human rights.

Wednesday, October 16, 2024

On Medium: The Ecstasy and Agony of Being Donald Trump

Here's an article about how lying all the time is easy, but living with the aftermath is hard, in which case being like Donald Trump would only superficially be the easiest thing in the world.

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

On Medium: Why Even Atheists Cry Out to God

Read on about the ploys for escaping the alienated brain, and how they lead to instinctive cries to a deity and to the indulgence in conspiracy theories.

Monday, October 14, 2024

On Medium: Why do Conservative Muslim Men Hate Women?

Read on about the irony and paradox of being attracted to women and simultaneously needing to loathe them on conservative, religious grounds in the Muslim world.

Thursday, October 10, 2024

On Medium: America’s Odd History of Close Elections

Read on about the strangeness of America's evenly matched political parties, and the corporate media’s role in sustaining the tight race between Harris and Trump.

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

On Medium: Plant Philosophy should be Rooted in Pantheism

Read on about how pantheism rather than Aristotle's teleology, panpsychism, or monotheism should help us understand the similarities between plant and animal behaviour.

Monday, October 7, 2024

On Medium: Is Progress a Revolt Against Nature’s Wildness?

Here's a dialogue on the implications of secular humanism for progress, transhumanism, and our existential relationship to nature.

Thursday, October 3, 2024

On Medium: GK Chesterton’s Sneaky Ode to Tradition

Here's an article about GK Chesterton's dubious insinuation that the logic of democracy entails conservativism, and why we shouldn’t mistake masterful rhetoric for a logical argument.

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

On Medium: Nature is Deaf to Our Gratitude for Being Alive

Read on about the cosmic flaw that inspires the tragic heroism of history, and the lengths to which we go to find someone to thank and to blame for our life's circumstances.