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

Read on about why we prefer romantic intimacy to civility.

On Medium: Slavoj Žižek: A Clownish Charlatan Who Abuses Philosophy

Read on about European nihilism and the worst of continental philosophical showboating.

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: 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.

On Medium: Tourette Syndrome and the Acquaintance with Absurdity

Read on about the extent to which your personal background might be relevant to the philosophical evaluation of your worldview.

On Medium: Conservatives Have Always Been Antimodern

Read on about how Donald Trump’s crassness is just gloves-off conservatism, and conservatives have always been opposed to modernity's humanist ethos.

On Medium: Is Civilisation Doomed Without Religion?

Read on for a dialogue on secular faith, postmodern meaning in a godless cosmos, and whether a secular humanist society can sustain itself in the long run.

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: Trumpism and the Rise of Meta-Christianity

Read on about how the medium is the message in Trump’s postmodern political cult, and Trumpism depends not on Christian theology, but theism's epistemological conceits.

On Medium: Is Justice a Lower-Class Conceit?

Here's a dialogue on whether history is progressive, or whether Trumpism shows we shouldn’t expect much social justice from history.

On Medium: A Silver Lining of Trumpian Madness

Read on about how the travesty of Trump’s hyperreality can inadvertently humble and enlighten us, by illustrating how all knowledge filters the facts.

On Medium: From the Age of Reason to Postmodern Sophistry

Here's an article about the developed world's transition to postmodernity and how we awoke from the naïve “modern” dream of rational progress.

On Medium: Postmodern Trump and his Absolute Evil

Read on about the paradoxical combination of Trump's postmodern, post-truth character, and his absolutely evil behaviour.

On Medium: The Internet’s Role in Fostering Postmodern Nihilism

Read on for a dialogue on the internet's role in our descent into the postmodern condition, and potential remedies for late-modern angst and cynicism. 

On Medium: Hanzi Freinacht and the Apocalypse of Modern Enlightenment

Here's an article that reckons with the pseudoproblems of metamodernists and explains the difference between overcomplicated and realistic views of postmodernity.

I Encountered the Epitome of “Wokeness”

The following is my December 19, 2024 article on "wokeness" that Medium recently took down. I refer to this article in another article about wokeness on Medium.

On Medium: Faceless Masses and Cheap Tribal Identities

Read on about secular humanism’s downside, the scientific objectification of people, and the postmodern distractions from our transhuman calling.

On Medium: Trump is the Real Postmodernist

Read on about how the Republicans’ masterful sophistry suits the developed world’s culture of cynical relativism, so that Trump is the epitome of postmodernism.

On Medium: Can Education Save Us From the Coming Dark Age?

Here's a dialogue about the postmodern obstacles to the overcoming of populist barbarism, and whether education can preserve our humanist principles of civility and critical thinking.

On Medium: Can Noble Lies Sustain Our Godless Progress?

Here's an article about the problem with the “metamodern” oscillation that's supposed to mediate between modern confidence in reason, and postmodern doubt and cynicism.