On Substack: The Profound Mystery of a Godless Natural Order

Read on about why there are no viable scientific or religious answers to the question of why or how a natural order came into being.

On Medium: Improve Yourself by Earning Melancholy

Here's an article about the happiness industry and the countercultural obligation to maximize enlightening alienation, not childish contentment.

On Medium: Turn Your Cynicism Into Wonder

Read on about how to recover the realization that all things are fundamentally strange and sacred, and how cynicism can be converted into wonder.

On Medium: The Mirage of Facts in a Desert of Storytelling

Read on about the question of what’s more fundamental, storytelling or objective knowledge, and whether the possibility of objective truth is the deepest fiction.

On Medium: Tourette Syndrome and the Acquaintance with Absurdity

Read on about the extent to which your personal background might be relevant to the philosophical evaluation of your worldview.

On Medium: Civility has Already Automated Our Jobs and Public Lives

Here's an article about big-city dehumanization, the faux pas of giving “too much information,” and the social scripts that automate our behaviour to cover up our existential condition.

On Medium: The Disgrace of the Happy Adult

Here's an article that critiques the self-improvement and happiness industries, and asks what’s better than joy and contentment in an unjust, absurd world.