On Medium: Atheists are Oppressing You with Reason!

Read on for a comparison of religious and secular liberties in history.

On Medium: Are Psychopaths More Enlightened than Mainstreamers?

Read on about how to beat cynical supervillains at their game with an aesthetic view of moral values.

On Medium: Consumers Are Too Childish to Rule Over Nature

Here's an article about the re-enchantment of our digital environments and the inversion of Gnostic longing.

On Medium: Apologetic Claptrap about Atheistic Knowledge

Here's an article that sorts through sophistry and the substantive issues in secular epistemology.

On Medium: Is it Better to Die Alone or Surrounded by Loved Ones?

Read on about a clash between movie memes that provide different advice on how to make the best of dying.

On Medium: We’re Sad Clowns Who Cling to Art

Read on about how fiction saves us from confronting nature's inhuman enormities.

On Medium: Jesus’s Resurrection Can’t Possibly be Historically Proven

Read on about the Christian apologist’s red herrings about Jesus's supposed resurrection, and the deeper matter of historical reasoning.

On Medium: Objective Morality Must be Godless

Here's an article about the prospects of objective morality for theists and secularists, and how God’s existence would make everything partly subjective.

On Medium: Who Best Represents Humanity, Winners or Losers?

Here's an article about the clash between the well-adjusted and alienated perspectives on life.

On Medium: Why Liberal Men and Women Resent Each Other

Read on about the battle between the sexes, and how feminism is humanism that entails transhumanism.

On Medium: God-Given Morality is Subjective Too

Here's an article about objective and subjective morality, the evolution of self-sacrifice, and the superiority of atheistic morals.

On Medium: Policies Are Irrelevant to American Politics

Read on about the clash between blue and red state vices.

On Medium: Understanding the Horror of Liminal Places

Read on about the “Backrooms” phenomenon and the dread of wasted technology.

On Medium: Art Can Be Both Historically Great and Lame

Here's an article about the Western canon, the problem with postmodern cynics, and the difference between art's historical importance and its psychological impact.

On Medium: Big Tech’s Incomplete Reverence for Star Trek

Here's an article about Silicon Valley, Star Trek, and the travesty of technological progress without secular humanist enlightenment.

On Medium: The Dire Choice Between Two Evils: Trumpistan and Iran

Read on about the difficulty of how decent people should choose in a war between villainous regimes.

On Medium: Monotheists Worship the Wrong God

Here's an article about Western religious propaganda, the reversal of God and Satan, and how monotheists came to be hypocritical in worshipping the wrong divine principle.

On Medium: Sex Is Everyone’s Practical Spirituality

Here's an article about the illuminating difference between bureaucratic mundanity and orgasmic apocalypse.

On Medium: Demystifying the Weirdness of Right-Wing Libertarianism

Here's an article about the authoritarian personality and the surprising coherence of conservative Fusionism.

On Medium: Gnostics Recognized that the Bible Is Satire

Here's an article about how secular humanists should reflect on the possible bridge between monotheism and modernity, formed by existential Gnosticism.

On Medium: Is Modernity Just Rehashed Christianity?

Read on about the apologetic fad of saying that modern secular liberals owe their values to Christian principles and traditions.

On Medium: H.P. Lovecraft’s Satirical Takedown of Islam

Read on about the relation between Islam and Lovecraft's cosmic horror, and why the unconditional surrender to God is dystopian.

On Medium: Do Conservatives Have an Independent Social Vision?

Read on for a critique of Thomas Sowell’s view of the difference between conservatives and liberals.

On Medium: The Merry Consumer’s Resentment Towards Intellectuals

Here's an article about the self-help industry’s sophistical slander against high intelligence.

On Medium: The Terrifying Bridge Between Modernity and the Muslim World

Here's an article about cosmic horror and monotheism’s reconciliation with science.

On Medium: Why does the Mainstream Media Normalize Trump’s “Presidency”?

Read on about radicalism, excuses for political absurdities, and the mainstream media's need to gaslight and keep decorum.

On Medium: The Heart of Religion is Polytheism

Here's an article about the polytheistic essence of theism, and the long slide from polytheistic religion to atheism.

On Medium: The AI Hypermind that Mirrors Online Humanity

Read on about the transition from the rearing of infants to the training of higher-order minds.

On Medium: Evil Regimes Aren’t as Unstable as We’d Expect or Wish

Read on about whether Canadian liberalism is more stable than a dictatorship.

On Medium: The Hysteria of Cosmic Horror in our Terrestrial Romper Room

Here's an article about the risks of existential philosophy and the benefits of ordinary life.

On Medium: The Wealthy Cabal Has Always Despised the Poor Masses

Read on about psychopathic alienation in the upper class, and the sociological importance of the Epstein files.

On Medium: The Bible and Quran are Proto-Lovecraftian Satires

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.

On Medium: The Rapture of Tourette Syndrome

Read on about the outrage at the Bafta Awards and the revelation of coprolalia.

On Medium: Are there Laws Without a Divine Lawgiver?

Here's an article about the intertwining of physical and social concepts of law.

On Medium: The Ephemerality of Coolness

Read on about why the aesthetic judgment of life still matters.

On Medium: Pragmatic Morality and the Buddha’s Nihilism

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.

Medium Articles

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.

On Medium: Trumpian Evil Is More Seductive than Democratic Lameness

Here's an article about why we seek political apocalypse and tire of routine mediocrities.

On Medium: The Wallflower Niche

Read on about an analogy that shows how people are anomalies in the animal kingdom.

On Medium: Why Conservatives Loved Eric Voegelin’s Take on Modern “Gnosticism”

Read on about the pseudo-intellectual rhetoric that excuses the reversion to savagery.

On Medium: The Top 3 Prizes in Nature’s Dangerous Game

Read on to compare the coping strategies for rational alienation, which are sex, civilized distractions, and artistic spirituality.

On Medium: Are Religions More Helpful than Godless Cultures?

Read on to weigh the pragmatic, moral, and aesthetic comparisons of worldviews to determine whether religious cultures are better than irreligious ones.

On Medium: Cosmic Perils and the Bright Side of Death

Read on about the existential importance of the shift from adult vanity to the enlightened humility of old age.

On Medium: A Sobering Look at the Self-Help Mindset

Read on about the sophistry that counts for wisdom in the shallow, neoliberal, self-help marketplace.

On Medium: The Conservative’s Bad-Faith Flight from Humanism

Here's an article that sorts through some old conservative rationalizations of tribal squalor and brutal oppression.

On Substack: Should All Pragmatists be Theists?

Here's a dialogue about the pragmatic case for theism.

On Medium: Does the Desire for God Show that God is Real?

Here's a dialogue on whether the strangeness of subjective experience indicates that reality is exactly as strange as God.

On Medium: Artistry Matters More than Truth in a Postmodern Society

Here's an article on Trumpism, AI slop, and the rise of aesthetic standards in an Orwellian nightmare.

On Medium: Religion's Coverups of Civilization’s Spiritual Purpose

Read on about the awe-inspiring, existential stakes of mundane tasks, and the best spirituality is based on the most realistic secular humanism.

On Medium: The Challenge for Enlightened Liberals

Here's an article about how our existential predicament constrains what counts as social progress.