On Medium: Make Friends with Absurdity in Your Worldview

Read on about how we should confront our existential condition with honourable humility.

On Medium: Atheistic Morality is Grounded in Horror for Nature

Read on about how the existential perspective makes our taste in moral values nonarbitrary.

On Medium: The Awesome Revelation of Real Evil

Here's an article about Satanic auras and the supervillain’s reality distortion field.

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: The Ephemerality of Coolness

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

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: 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: 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: Nihilists are Incomplete Skeptics

Here's an article about how, ironically, the most rigorous, reductive feats of objectification end up re-enchanting nature, so that nihilists miss how skepticism overcomes itself.

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: 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: 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: Nature’s Art and the Whitewashing of Awe

Read on about secular humanist reverence, cosmic horror, and how the whitewashed version of awe is vulnerable to a critique that revives "awe's" original meaning. 

On Medium: Morality is the Heroically Creative Use of Awe and Dread

Here's an article that recovers secular morality by combining the standard philosophies (virtue theory, deontology, utilitarianism, and existentialism).

On Medium: Is Nature Metaphysically Wild?

Here's a dialogue on whether there's an objective, informative sense in which nature is metaphysically wild.

On Medium: Science Doesn’t Show that Life is Meaningless

Read on about the collapse of Western teleology, the rise of aesthetic humanism, how the Western meaning crisis occurred, and how it can be averted.

On Medium: The Philosopher’s Role in Shepherding High Culture through a Dark Age

Here's an article about neoshamanic explorations, intellectual luxuries, the retreat to religion, and whether philosophers would be needed to preserve knowledge in a dark age.

On Medium: Creativity is the Bridge that Unites Civilizers with Nature

Read on about the pantheistic insight that alleviates alienation better than alternative views of our position in the world, such as theism, mysticism, and physicalism.