Thursday, April 25, 2024

On Medium: The “Woke” are Sleepwalking in a Fog of Western Decadence

Read on about how to see past the tribal output of a vacuous culture war, bypassing the conservative's smokescreens and the partisan defenses of liberal decadence.

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

On Medium: Ascetics are Harbingers of Transhuman Power Over Nature

Read on about the theological ploys that hint at a noble escape from sexual degradation, and the social lows and existential highs of the ascetic renunciation of sex.

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

On Medium: Religions are Tedious Obstacles to Transhuman Glory

Read on about why religions interfere with secular humanistic progress, and how reflecting on life’s basic condition can set us on the right side of history.

Monday, April 22, 2024

On Medium: Art Should be More Sacred than Religion

Here's an article about how the stale art of organized religions makes them parasites, as these institutions are politically compromised and lose sight of art's existential function.

Friday, April 19, 2024

On Medium: Will Religion be Vindicated When AIs Rule Over Us as Gods?

Read on for a philosophical dialogue I had with the personal AI chatbot “Pi,” about the existential implications of the civilized stance towards nature.

Thursday, April 18, 2024

On Medium: Technology Sings Hymns to Our Impending Godhood

Read on about how technology automates religious ritual, as computers apply programs that stand in for the obsolete priestly rites that were supposed to improve life.

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

On Medium: Conservatives Revere the Wilderness, not Civilization

Here's an article that corrects Dennis Prager’s gaslighting about social progress, by pointing out that conservatives can't support inherently progressive civilizations.

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

On Medium: Nature is a Haunted House, and Scientists Posit the Ghosts

Read on about how science and philosophy ironically re-enchant the cosmos, leading to a dire existential reckoning by presenting nature's mode of productivity as monstrous.

Monday, April 15, 2024

On Medium: Wokeness is a Triumph of Liberal Decadence

Here's an article about how progress is an escape from animals’ servitude to nature’s wildness, and why we should be ambivalent about the decadence of so-called wokeness.

Friday, April 12, 2024

On Medium: Why Think God is a Person?

Here's a debate between an atheist and a Christian about whether there's still any good reason to think a person created the natural universe.