On Medium: Tool-Users and the Mastery of Writing

Read on about why you shouldn’t publish if you can’t write well without computers, AI, and the internet, because publishing should be for masters, not students.

On Medium: Cultural Ironies and Men’s Expendability

Here's an article about how we overcompensate for nature’s unequal expectations for us, as masculinity copes with men's secondary status in nature, and femininity drags women down from their natural height.

On Medium: Our Maker’s Creativity is Ambiguous

Read on about how we project our longings onto natural transformations, as we prefer order to disorder even though the two are interconnected in nature, and disorder may prevail.

On Medium: The Precarious Role of Metaphysics in Nature

Here's a dialogue on what philosophy adds to science, religion, and art, and the role of metaphysics in philosophy, given the rise of the scientific picture of nature’s creativity.

On Medium: The Acute Meaning Crisis for Spoiled Consumers

Read on about how liberal progress produces a class of infantile adults that lacks a collective mother figure, resulting in an acute late-modern meaning crisis.

On Medium: The Reign of Civilized Psychopaths

Read on about why Democrats seem so feeble next to President Trump, and how subcriminal psychopathy might be a political superpower that undermines the liberal's faith in humanity.

On Medium: The Best Religious Response to Atheism is Two Words Long

Read on about why we must reckon with the existential basis of all cultures, and realize that neither religious nor secular worldviews are fully justified by reason.

On Medium: Religion as Faulty Technology or Disposable Art

Here's an article about the spectrum of artifacts in late-modern societies of abundance, and whether religious beliefs and rituals should be viewed more as tools or artworks.

On Medium: AI Slop and the Artist’s Struggle

Here's an article about the corporate prioritizing of output over process, and the implications of consumers' devaluing of the artistic process.

On Medium: Spot the Difference Between Honest and Dishonest Writing

Read on about how some nonfiction writers aren't trying to be truthtellers, and how to spot the difference between the two.

On Medium: Femininity and the Humanist Restoration of Goddess Culture

Here's an article about the search for women’s authentic self-expression, a search that would bypass the patriarchal conceptions of womanliness.

On Medium: The Clash Between Metamodernism and Existentialism

Here's a dialogue on John Vervaeke’s scientific reconstruction of spirituality, and the existential insight that people, unlike impersonal animals, inevitably experience alienation.

On Medium: The Engines of Cosmic Wildness

Read on about how quantum mechanics and natural selection are some drivers of nature’s headless body, giving substance to the claim that nature is wild.

On Medium: When Conservative Jewish Rabbis Hide their Atheism

Here's an article that criticizes Reconstructionist Judaism and Rabbi Harold Kushner’s incoherent argument against the reverence for technology.

On Medium: The Corporate Source of Social Media Sophistry

Read on about how busy consumers must choose between infantilizing infotainment and honourable philosophical and artistic content.

On Medium: Must Religions be Lamely Theistic to be Socially Useful?

Here's a dialogue on the sociology of religion, secular humanism’s prospects as an alternative faith, and whether the religions that bind society must be lamely theistic.

On Medium: The Incoherence of Manliness

Read on about why debating who’s manly is a fool’s errand because of the incoherent standards that arise from very different points in our evolutionary history.

On Medium: Trumpism and the Cthulhu Antichrist

Read on about what we should learn from the flagrancy of Trumpian evil, and why liberalism should be grounded in existential humour.

On Medium: Is Religion Needed to Prevent Existential Despair?

Read on for a critique of Rabbi Harold Kushner’s case for religion’s relevance in "Who Needs God."

On Medium: Our Babyish Filters for Deep Time and Space

Read on about our cognitive filters for preventing cosmic horror, and the prospect of transhuman maturity that lacks such filters.

On Medium: The Hiding of Sophistry in Skimmable Texts

Here's an article about why only fake readers want to read while multitasking, and only fake writers infantilize their audience.

On Medium: Prophetic Insights in the Cosmic Void

Read on for a dialogue on the shamanic and Biblical roots of existential humanism, and whether dark cosmic insights are perennially found in countercultures.

On Medium: Progress and the Daemonic Critique of Naturalness

Read on about how art, not wisdom, defines our species because counter-creation in a pantheistic context establishes our existential condition. 

On Medium: The Cosmic Importance of Art

Here's an article that outlines transhuman values for our enlightened descendants, explaining how aesthetic values alone are metaphysically grounded in nature's creativity.

On Medium: The Link Between the Sublime and the Ridiculous

Here's an article about existential paradoxes, the meta status of horror comedies, and why the ridiculous is linked to the sublime.

On Medium: There is No Scientific Understanding of Nature

Read on about how popularizers of science may understate what it means to objectify nature because the universe's inhumanity threatens science's humanistic ethos.

On Medium: Stephen Hawking’s Confused Pantheism

Read on about how Stephen Hawking's pantheistic confusions about the "laws of nature" derive from Spinoza's theistic packaging of nature's impersonal creativity.

On Medium: The Wildness of Nature’s Subversive Creativity

Read on about entropy, the unnaturalness of progress, and the nonarbitrariness of cosmic horror and the conception of nature as fundamentally wild.

On Medium: Mark Carney’s Misplaced Faith in Trump’s Rationality

Read on about Adam Curtis's view that irrational reality surprises liberal intellectuals, and how this explains the futility of the Canadian Liberals' handling of Trump.

On Medium: Should Secular Philosophy be Rooted in Cosmic Horror?

Read on for a dialogue on whether a cynical, Lovecraftian view of nature makes sense and could ever support a mainstream culture.

On Medium: Faith, Forensics, and the Absurd in Christianity

Read on for a dialogue on the upside and the downside of Christianity's mystical emphasis on theological absurdities.

On Medium: Love is Nature’s Compensation for Cosmic Horror

Read on about how nature prefers farce to tragedy in life’s evolution, so pleasures evolve to balance the inevitable suffering from nature's absurdity.

On Medium: The Cosmic Negation of Infantile Presumptions

Read on about ancient and early modern forerunners to the cosmic horror genre, from Greek tragedy and Buddhist nihilism to the Marquis de Sade and HP Lovecraft.

On Medium: Where’s the Left-Wing Version of Trump in America?

Read on about centrism, the asymmetry of conservative and liberal radicalism, and how Trump revealed the duplicity and ineffectiveness of centrist Democrats.

On Medium: Peter Thiel’s Incoherent Propaganda

Here's an article about how a Silicon Valley titan tries to square the circle with libertarianism, conservatism, transhumanism, and Christianity.

On Medium: Modern Self-Deification and the Array of Religions

Here's an article about the ideological resources the world’s religions have for accommodating the modern rise of science and secular humanism.

On Medium: Trump’s Strange Aversion to War

Read on about the paradox of Trumpism’s incomplete monstrousness, and some explanations of how Trump and MAGA could be odious but strangely not eager for WWIII.

On Medium: Don’t Insult the Worldview that’s Home to My Mind

Here's an article about individualism, the futile debate between theists and atheists, and why we attach ourselves to our worldviews.

On Medium: Science Should be More Lovecraftian

Read on about the physicist Sean Carroll’s half-hearted undermining of human vanities, and the need for a sharpening of science's humanist ethos with cosmic horror.

On Medium: Napoleonic Cynics and the Pejorative Sense of “Ideology”

Read on about the dubious grounds for the pessimistic dismissal of idealists, stemming from Napoleon's infamous cynicism.

On Medium: Religious Fundamentalism Isn't Humiliating Enough

Here's an article on the need for a deflationary perspective in deconstructing fundamentalism and making peace with religion's humble, natural origins that ought to humiliate tribal literalists. 

On Medium: Conservatives Have Always Been Antimodern

Read on about how Donald Trump’s crassness is just gloves-off conservatism, and conservatives have always been opposed to modernity's humanist ethos.

On Medium: Is Civilisation Doomed Without Religion?

Read on for a dialogue on secular faith, postmodern meaning in a godless cosmos, and whether a secular humanist society can sustain itself in the long run.

On Medium: The Scientific Whitewashing of Nature

Here's an article on how scientists are caught between nature’s monstrousness and their humanistic ethos, so they're tempted to whitewash existential facts in their popularizations.

On Medium: Science Made Theism Archaic

Read on about the simple dynamic that makes most religions preposterous, as science undermines the intuitions that sustain the vain personification of ultimate causes.

On Medium: How Objective is Science?

Read on for a dialogue on structural realism, the limits of objectivity, and the potential for neo-animistic scientific projections onto nature.

On Medium: What’s Behind Big Tech’s Cult of Transhumanism?

Read on about the philosophical issues that the big tech billionaires and their fad’s propaganda ignore by highlighting the role of revolutionary technologies.

On Medium: The Gods of Philosophers and the Unwashed Masses

Read on about the difference between the God of philosophers and the God of average religious folks, and the problem with Bishop Barron’s dismissal of New Atheism.

On Medium: Jesus’s Counterculture and the Christian Abomination

Read on about the meaning of those who are “poor in spirit,” according to the Beatitudes, and how that divides the initial Jesus movement from the later organized religion.

On Medium: Scientists’ Mathematical Confusions about Natural Necessities

Here's an article about the need to pivot from quaint reassurances to cosmic horror, and how the emphasis on math in the hard sciences disinclines us to make that pivot.