On Medium: Commercialized Nerddom at Fan Conventions

Here's a personal report on the commercialized nerddom at Fan Expo Canada.

On Medium: Which is Worse for Artists, AI or Capitalism?

Read on for a dialogue on AI, capitalism, and the late-modern artistic struggle.

On Medium: The Best Businesses Are Evil

Read on about capitalism’s amoral logic and the incoherence of liberalism.

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 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: 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: The Global Prominence of Bait-and-Switch Frauds

Read on about how to notice the hooks hiding behind the flashy lures in the normalized frauds of religion and capitalism.

On Medium: The Audience’s Capture of Medium’s Curators

Here's an article that solves the mystery of the recent shift in Medium's boosting criteria.

On Medium: The Poison Pills of Liberal Institutions

Here's an article about why science, capitalism, democracy, and the liberal arts may not be sustainable since they conflict in some ways with their underlying humanist ethos.

On Medium: Why America Bet Everything on AI, and China Excels at Manufacturing

Here's an article about the culture clash between fraudulent individualism and pragmatic humanism, a clash that explains the difference between American and Chinese economic priorities.

On Medium: The Slipperiness of Conservative Economics

Read on about why conservatives have craved both free-market and centrally controlled economies, and whether these opposite views can be reconciled.

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: 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: Corporations Are Our Superheroes

Read on about how large corporations infantilize consumers and spare them late-modern cynicism, effectively rescuing them from the downside of the postmodern condition.

On Medium: “Dark Enlightenment” and the Tragedy of Corporate Hubris

Read on about the odiousness of Nick Land’s anarcho-capitalism, and why governments shouldn't be treated as businesses.

On Medium: Is Trumpism Ideological or Psychotic?

Here's an article about a superficial clash between explanations of Trump’s second presidential term, and whether his regime is guided by mental disorder or right-wing ideology.

On Medium: The Folly of Running Society like a Corporation

Here's an article about libertarian fantasies, Curtis Yarvin’s CEO-monarchs, and capitalism’s humanist purpose.

On Medium: Family Values and Individualism: The Conservative’s Hodgepodge

Read on about how the conservative's resort to familism preserves medieval prejudices and elite psychopathy, and conflicts with the individualism needed for capitalism.

On Medium: The American Myth of the “Undecided Voter”

Read on about how corporate news media like CNN devise fake conflicts with the myth of the undecided voter to attract audiences to their infotainment.

On Medium: American Conservatives Keep Hiding Their Medieval Prejudices

Read on about the subterfuge in Heritage’s definition of “conservatism,” and why American conservatives hide their medieval, prejudices behind modern liberal language.