Friday, April 28, 2023

On Medium: The Hypocrisies of Early Buddhists and Secular Humanists

Read on about the elitism of early, monastic Buddhists, the pride of late-modern consumers, and where ancient wisdom meets modern folly.

Thursday, April 27, 2023

On Medium: The Atheistic Argument from Religious Chutzpah

Here's an article about the appeal to good taste, and Christianity’s obnoxious exploitation of Judaism as an example of theistic audacity that should suffice as a reason to reject religion.

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

On Medium: Are Religionists and Capitalists Mentally Disordered?

Here's an article about the sleight of hand psychiatrists engage in to maintain their discipline's scientific status despite the normativity of their choice to give a pass to widespread craziness.

Monday, April 24, 2023

On Medium: The Clash Between Ancient and Modern Sages

Read on about the differences between ancient and modern ideas of enlightenment, including the dichotomies between tranquility vs alienation, and stagnation vs progress.

Friday, April 21, 2023

On Medium: How We’re All Heroes Surrounded by Monsters

Read on about the nature of monstrousness, and about religious and secular strategies for coping with nature’s wildness, from personification to technological redesign.

Thursday, April 20, 2023

On Medium: Misaligned AI and Philosophy’s Surrender to Capitalism

Here's an article about the fear of artificial superintelligence and of our imminent demise, and how capitalism trumps moral questions in the race to "progress."

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

On Medium: How Nature’s Monstrousness Drives Human Progress

Here's an article about the artificiality of civilization, the monstrosity of the cosmic wilderness, and how we overcome science’s dire implications with anti-natural progress.

Monday, April 17, 2023

On Medium: Secular Humanism’s Whitewashing of Our Relationship to Nature

Read on about our escape from animality, people’s progress towards artificiality, and the humanist manifestos' whitewashing of our relationship to godless nature.

Friday, April 14, 2023

On Medium: Why Nice Guys Finish Last

Here's an article about politeness, incompetence, the conflict between realists and idealists, the deeper meaning of niceness, and why nice guys finish last in life.

Thursday, April 13, 2023

On Medium: How the Mind’s Mastery of the Body is the Paradigm for Technologies

Here's an article about the master-slave dynamic, how we perfect body and mind with more efficient devices, and the irony of the upper class’s replacement by computers.