On Medium: A Backdoor Solution to the Hard Problem of Consciousness

Read on about a pantheistic reframing of the mystery of subjectivity, and some Western biases that make consciousness seem so bizarre. 

On Medium: Why Conservatives Only Grudgingly Approve of Modernity

Read on about the essential difference between conservatism and liberalism, and why conservatives should be grateful when liberal institutions go wrong.

On Medium: Who has the Best Takedown of Toxic “Wokeness”?

Here's a dialogue on the best grounds for criticizing some social justice advocates’ tribal distortion of liberalism: Christianity or secular humanism.

On Medium: Family Values and Individualism: The Conservative’s Hodgepodge

Read on about how the conservative's resort to familism preserves medieval prejudices and elite psychopathy, and conflicts with the individualism needed for capitalism.

On Medium: The Peril of Taking Comfort in Alien Norms

Read on about how routines reassure us, even as this paradigm is set by the paranoid fear of nature's wild reality that surpasses our self-serving inductive generalizations.

On Medium: The Capitalist Tyranny of Extraversion

Read on about how the social preference for the young over the old, men over women, or extraverts over introverts amounts to a structural cause of life’s unfairness.

On Medium: Sexual Intimacy was the First Holy Ground

Read on about how sex’s prominence in the earliest, Mother Goddess religions deflates theism since theological absurdities derive their mystique from mundane conflicts.

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: Nazi Philosophy’s Revenge on Liberal Societies?

Read on for an assessment of Carl Schmitt’s case against liberalism, which tests whether the Nazis are avenging themselves with the global upsurge of authoritarianism.