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.

On Medium: Atheists Should Welcome Christianity’s Secret Lesson

Here's an article about how organized Christianity prospered only because the world is absurd, which is a lesson atheism entails.

On Medium: The Scientistic Ruse of Hiding the Economist’s Morality

Read on about scientism and the role of moral philosophy in the economic evaluation of communism and capitalism.

On Medium: The Orwellian Meme about Biden’s “Weaponized Justice Department”

Here's an article that sorts through the obvious difference between Biden’s and Trump’s views of justice.

On Medium: The Pragmatic Case for Atheism

Read on about the godless foundation for civility, and how pragmatism favours secular humanism over theism.

On Medium: The Enlightened Horror for the Wilderness

Read on about what happens when we aesthetically appraise nature’s productivity, while keeping in mind our existential condition.

On Medium: The Challenge for Anti-Trump Conservatives

Here's an article that asks what conservatism is that differs from Trumpism and liberalism, and isn’t just an incoherent mess.

On Medium: Where Are All the Buddhist Critics of Consumer Culture?

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.

On Medium: Nature Still Rules Us Through Conservative Prejudices

Read on for an explanation of a hidden dichotomy that explains all social behaviour, including the divide between liberals and conservatives.

On Medium: Trump’s Russia Connection Is Too Obvious to Be a Hoax

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.

On Medium: We’ve Outgrown Spiritual Pursuits

Read on about how the self-help industry fools us into thinking we’re still serious about personal growth.

On Medium: Has Modernity Always Been Just a Sham?

Read on for a response to Bruno Latour’s critique of the distinction between society and nature.

On Medium: Canadian Trauma and the Horror of Trumpism

Here's an article about the revelation of Donald Trump's evil, which brings to mind the downside of everything.