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.

On Medium: Theists Insult God’s Integrity by Expecting Miracles

Here's an article about the unintended consequences of expecting miracles from God, and the vanity of implying that the universe shouldn’t speak for itself.

On Medium: Should Atheists Respect the Placebo of Religion?

Here's an article about whether religion is needed to maintain mental health, and whether atheists are foolish for spreading the “disease” of harsh existential truth.

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.

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.

On Medium: How the Mind is the Brain’s Clothing that Mistakes Itself for a Spirit

Read on about the illusion of our inner self, and how it arises as the brain's tool that mistakes itself for the primary tool-user and ghostly possessor of the body.

On Medium: Can Consumers Escape being Infantilized?

Here's an article about consumerism, self-infantilization, neoliberal psychiatry, and the question of whether mainstream liberal adults are existentially mature.

Seventh Anthology on Amazon

My seventh paperback and eBook anthology is out on Amazon, called Treadmills in the Abyss. Over 650 pages, it focusses on history, progress, and politics, whereas the previous one, Cosmic Divinity and Religious Blasphemies concentrated on philosophy and religion.

The eighth anthology is already in the works too.

On Medium: The Eucharist: Source of the Zombie Cannibal Mythos

Read on about the magical thinking in the Eucharist, the Paschal lamb, Mithraism, and zombies, and how horror hides in plain sight as a sanitized Christian routine.

On Medium: Is Civilization the Triumph of Slave Morality?

Here's an article about whether Nietzsche's criticism of Christianity applies to existentialism and to the resentment that drives our civilized revolt against nature.