Read on about Catholic centrism, the countercultural ideals of Jewish monotheism, Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor, and Leo Strauss's elitist, double truth doctrine.
Here's an article about how alienation is at the root of sentience and of modelling a pristine environment, and how cultures channel that alienation in their myths and practices.
Read on about the stories we tell in the face of our mortality, and whether science counts as purely objective and thus as an exception to that rule.
Here's an article about individualism, the downside of secular progress, and how modernity alienates us from the environment we dominate and from ourselves for dominating badly.
Read on about the surprising lack of alienation in Chinese religions, the downside of Chinese pragmatism, and the potential for a disastrous synergy between atheism and amorality.
Here's an article about the threat of the introverted, melancholy, or mentally ill person's outsider perspective on society, and why some uncool losers are quarantined to perpetuate mainstream delusions and frauds.
Read on about how Jainism, Hinduism, and Buddhism trump Western monotheistic religions in promoting religious alienation from the apparent world.
Here's an article about Islam's twist on Jews' therapeutic handling of their alienation, or how the security blanket of the conquered became the mascot of conquerors.
Here's an article about how opposite histories produced conflicting theologies, as Christianity's compromises with paganism betrayed the authenticity of Jewish alienation.
Here's an article about monotheism, God’s hiddenness, Jewish resentment, and the therapeutic role of religion for a people "chosen" to be perennially conquered and persecuted.
