Read on about the hidden meanings of Judaism and of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," and the fate of the indignant satirist who thwarts a Kafkaesque bureaucracy.
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Monday, May 20, 2024
On Medium: Is Moral Cooperation Rooted in Nature’s Productivity?
Read on about the progressive revolt against natural norms, and whether game theory shows that morality only repurposes the productivity built into nature's mathematical order.
Thursday, May 16, 2024
On Medium: What if the Universe is All in God’s Head?
Here's an article that tests the merits of naturalism and metaphysical idealism, asking whether matter is real or whether only minds and their contents exist.
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
On Medium: Techno-Toys Don’t Make the Transhuman
Read on about the message of transhumanist science fiction that hides in plain sight since these stories are about secular humanism's impact on us and the planet here and now.
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
On Medium: Dispense with the Confused Ambition of Earning “F-You Money”
Here's an article about the popular goal of earning financial independence as a way to brush off social demands, and why the poor are likely mentally freer than the rich.
Monday, May 13, 2024
On Medium: The Terrors of Outer Space and Deep Time
Read on about how the source of cosmic horror is surprisingly something near and familiar, namely our conscious self, not the remoteness of faraway places or times.
Thursday, May 9, 2024
On Medium: When Misanthropes Claim the Moral High Ground
Here's an article about the perversity and incoherence of preachy antinatalism, and how moralistic misanthropes resemble Hippies who want to retain their idealism even after their experience and worldview exclude it.
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
On Medium: Trumpian Israel Meets Arab Medievalism
Here's an article about Israel's Trumpian regime, the Muslim world's medievalism, and how to see past the Western Left’s one-sided assessment of the Israel-Hamas conflict.
On Medium: Decrying the Prosperity Gospel of Americanized Christianity
Read on about how Joel Osteen's Americanized prosperity gospel is just one more mainstream debasement of Jesus’s subversive ethos.
Monday, May 6, 2024
On Medium: The Prospect of Tragic Heroism in the Cosmic Scheme
Here's an article about why we should begin philosophizing by contemplating the worst-case existential scenario since that raises the stakes of our potential heroism.
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