Showing posts with label Scientism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scientism. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

On Medium: Hollow Philosophy and the Call for Neoshamans

Read on about scientism, the capitalist race to the bottom, and the question of liberalism’s sustainability.

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

On Medium: Mark Carney’s Misplaced Faith in Trump’s Rationality

Read on about Adam Curtis's view that irrational reality surprises liberal intellectuals, and how this explains the futility of the Canadian Liberals' handling of Trump.

Monday, July 31, 2023

On Medium: Trampling the Record of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Scientistic Confusions

Here's an article about an academic culture war, the confusions behind Tyson's numerous anti-philosophical remarks, and how the love of science can make philosophy look bad by comparison.

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

On Medium: Overtones of the Meme that Science Explains “How Nature Works”

Here's an article about scientism, the pragmatic meme about science and "how nature works," and the smallness of scientific progress compared to nature’s inhuman vastness.

Monday, July 24, 2023

On Medium: Is Science Immune from Criticism if it Drives Civilizational Progress?

Read on about science's progressive role in civilization, the workability of nature, and the link in Neil deGrasse Tyson’s ideology between scientism and utilitarianism.

Friday, July 14, 2023

On Medium: The Cosmic Poem that Spoils Galileo’s Bleak Equations

Read on about Galileo's scientistic metaphor of the “book of nature” that's written in the language of mathematics, the limits of science that nevertheless obtain, and why artists will finish the grand narrative.

Monday, June 26, 2023

On Medium: The Menace of Nihilism: Whether All Things Come to Nothing

Here's an article that critiques nihilism and explains why we should move from the objectifying positivism that underlies nihilism, to pragmatism and pantheism.

Wednesday, June 7, 2023

On Medium: How Neoliberals Exploit Economic Scientism to Justify Plutocracy

Here's an article about the orthodox economist's physics envy, the model of the economy as an abstract quasi-physical system, and the neoliberal myth of the free market.

Monday, May 8, 2023

On Medium: How the Creeds of Charlatans Exploit Prophetic Madness

Here's an article about Aristotle’s scientistic overreach, the Western politicizing of religion’s poetic core, and an assessment of the spectrum of religious discourses.

Thursday, February 23, 2023

On Medium: How Philosophy Creates a Cosmic Perspective in God’s Absence

Here's an article about Neil deGrasse Tyson’s secular humanism, the existential take on life, and why science isn't enough for a cosmic perspective.

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

On Medium: Is Science Enough for a Cosmic Perspective?

Read on about the humanistic need for a cosmic perspective to end tribalism, and Neil deGrasse Tyson’s scientistic take on enlightenment in Starry Messenger.

Monday, February 20, 2023

On Medium: The Kernel of Truth in Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Juvenile Scientism

Read on about scientism, a longstanding culture war between intellectuals and the less reflective masses, and why philosophy is poison for the average person.

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

On Medium: Economics and Physics Envy

Here's an article about monetary objectification, the unnaturalness of societies,  the bureaucratic mindset, and the economist's scientistic temptations.

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

On Medium: The Bogus Laws of Orthodox Economics

Read on about natural functions, economic casuistry, how sociality emerges from nature, and why the laws of orthodox, physics-envying economics are bogus.

Friday, September 2, 2022

On Medium: Compared to Science, is Philosophy Just a Nuisance?

Here's an article about scientism as a downside of the mastery of modern techniques, and whether philosophy only disgraces itself compared to the progress of pragmatic science and engineering.

Wednesday, August 3, 2022

On Medium: Why Does Jordan Peterson Resent His Critics?

Here's an article that explains the oddities of Peterson’s anger and tears, by hypothesizing that he has a scientistic God complex and an authoritarian personality.

Wednesday, June 22, 2022

On Medium: Philosophy’s Childishness and History’s Anticlimax

Read on to find out why if children are natural philosophers, and philosophy is akin to childish play, culture’s bedrock assumptions must be frivolous.