Read on about how the crucial difference between ancient and modern enlightenment explains the ruse of Ryan Holiday's promotion of self...

Read on about whether we should all be striving to be supervillains now.

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

Read on about the amorality of Buddhist enlightenment and the nihilistic nature of enlightenment.

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

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

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

Read on for a critique of the self-help industry and specifically Dale Carnegie’s foundational advice on how to increase profits by being f...

Read on about how self-help consumerism is for some and visionary art is for others.

Here's an article about the happiness industry and the countercultural obligation to maximize enlightening alienation, not childish con...

Read on about how to recover the realization that all things are fundamentally strange and sacred, and how cynicism can be converted into w...

Here's an article that critiques the self-improvement and happiness industries, and asks what’s better than joy and contentment in an u...

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

Read on about the Lovecraftian view of nature, and the secret of Bob Ross’s cult status as a painter of “happy” landscapes.

Read on for a dialogue on whether philosophy can make you happy, or whether philosophy is countercultural, so it alienates neo-prophets wit...

Here's an article about why the search for truth is opposed to the desire for happiness, and how the countercultural philosopher strugg...

Read on about the clash between mysticism and pragmatism in the Lotus Sutra, and Buddhism's double truth doctrine for the enlightened a...

Here's an article about the philosophy's downside, as shown by its history and social context, and whether philosophy's redeeme...

Here's a dialogue on the philosophical implications of a quantum mechanical view of nature, and the prospects of happiness for quantum ...

Read on about a fallacy of gaslighting optimism that's based on dire premises, a sentimental fallacy found in what passes for philosoph...