On Medium: Kant and the Mystic: Enlightenment through Cosmic Horror

Read on about whether Kantian epistemology is a mental prison or whether it leaves room for transhuman insights.

On Medium: “Trumpian Apocalypse” Isn’t Just Hyperbole

Here's an article about the existential implications of Trump’s supervillainy.

On Medium: The Lunatic Sprawl of Deep Time

Here's an article about the inescapable strangeness of nature’s creativity.

On Medium: Love is a Refuge from the Degradations of Public Life

Read on about why we prefer romantic intimacy to civility.

On Medium: Tracing the Alienation of the Rich and the Poor

Here's an article about the social dynamics of the billionaire’s partial enlightenment, and what the rich have in common with the poor.

On Medium: Make Friends with Absurdity in Your Worldview

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

On Medium: Homeowners Conquer Nature by Mowing the Lawn

Here's an article about the face-saving rationales we use for infantile chores, like mowing the lawn.

On Medium: The Perennial Clash Between Normalizers and Radicals

Here's an article about the underlying historical dynamic of social conformity and the prophet’s apocalypse.

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: Exploits of the Enlightened Supervillain

Read on about the paradoxes of rational enlightenment and selfish progress.

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: 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: 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: Understanding the Horror of Liminal Places

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

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: 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: 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: The Merry Consumer’s Resentment Towards Intellectuals

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