Read on about psychopathic alienation in the upper class, and the sociological importance of the Epstein files.
Here's an article about the hidden message of monotheistic scriptures, and how Jews are the only monotheists who have understood the prophets’ implicit critique of religion.
Read on about the outrage at the Bafta Awards and the revelation of coprolalia.
Here's an article about the intertwining of physical and social concepts of law.
Read on about why the aesthetic judgment of life still matters.
Read on about how the Noble Eightfold Path is a tool you throw away when you’re awakened, so nirvana is a nihilistic mental condition.
The following is a clickable reading list that maps out this blog’s more recent articles, the ones I've been posting on Medium, and this list will be updated as I add new ones. I’ve tried to arrange the readings in a logical order so that the more general, central, or background readings come before the others in each category. The older articles can be found here.
Here's an article about why we seek political apocalypse and tire of routine mediocrities.
Read on about an analogy that shows how people are anomalies in the animal kingdom.
Read on about the pseudo-intellectual rhetoric that excuses the reversion to savagery.
Read on to compare the coping strategies for rational alienation, which are sex, civilized distractions, and artistic spirituality.
Read on to weigh the pragmatic, moral, and aesthetic comparisons of worldviews to determine whether religious cultures are better than irreligious ones.
Read on about the existential importance of the shift from adult vanity to the enlightened humility of old age.
Read on about the sophistry that counts for wisdom in the shallow, neoliberal, self-help marketplace.
Here's an article that sorts through some old conservative rationalizations of tribal squalor and brutal oppression.
Here's a dialogue about the pragmatic case for theism.
Here's a dialogue on whether the strangeness of subjective experience indicates that reality is exactly as strange as God.
Here's an article on Trumpism, AI slop, and the rise of aesthetic standards in an Orwellian nightmare.
Read on about the awe-inspiring, existential stakes of mundane tasks, and the best spirituality is based on the most realistic secular humanism.
Here's an article about how our existential predicament constrains what counts as social progress.
Here's an article about how organized Christianity prospered only because the world is absurd, which is a lesson atheism entails.
Read on about scientism and the role of moral philosophy in the economic evaluation of communism and capitalism.
Here's an article that sorts through the obvious difference between Biden’s and Trump’s views of justice.
Read on about the godless foundation for civility, and how pragmatism favours secular humanism over theism.
Read on about what happens when we aesthetically appraise nature’s productivity, while keeping in mind our existential condition.
Here's an article that asks what conservatism is that differs from Trumpism and liberalism, and isn’t just an incoherent mess.
Read on about how Buddhism is supposed to be so much more insightful and relevant than Christian warnings, yet you don't hear many Buddhist criticisms of consumerism.
Read on for an explanation of a hidden dichotomy that explains all social behaviour, including the divide between liberals and conservatives.
Here's an article about Donald Trump's obvious connection to Vladimir Putin that has nothing to do with the preposterous allegation that Trump is a Russian agent.
Read on about how the self-help industry fools us into thinking we’re still serious about personal growth.
Read on for a response to Bruno Latour’s critique of the distinction between society and nature.
Here's an article about the revelation of Donald Trump's evil, which brings to mind the downside of everything.
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