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How the Mass Mind Absorbs Potent Countercultures

How the Mass Mind Absorbs Potent Countercultures

Is the co-optation always degrading, politically compromised, and dishonourable?
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Benjamin Cain
Shouldn’t Incels and Femcels Cancel Each Other Out?

Shouldn’t Incels and Femcels Cancel Each Other Out?

Involuntary celibacy and the black pill
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Benjamin Cain
The Storied Self: How the “Spirit” is Just a Dramatic Plot

The Storied Self: How the “Spirit” is Just a Dramatic Plot

Narrative logic and the return of animism
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Benjamin Cain
Can Pragmatists be Existentialists?

Can Pragmatists be Existentialists?

The American propaganda in Richard Rorty’s pragmatism
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Benjamin Cain
The Pretense that Objective Truth is Neutral

The Pretense that Objective Truth is Neutral

And how nonfiction and fiction are inversely related
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Benjamin Cain
How the Self’s Illusion is Like a Geode

How the Self’s Illusion is Like a Geode

The meaning of symbols and the contrast between internal and external perspectives
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Benjamin Cain
Is a Worldview Just a Weapon?

Is a Worldview Just a Weapon?

The mind is like an interface, a set of maps, or a snail shell
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How Philosophy Creates a Cosmic Perspective in God’s Absence

How Philosophy Creates a Cosmic Perspective in God’s Absence

Neil deGrasse Tyson’s secular humanism, and the existential take on life
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Benjamin Cain
Is Science Enough for a Cosmic Perspective?

Is Science Enough for a Cosmic Perspective?

Neil deGrasse Tyson’s scientistic take on enlightenment in “Starry Messenger”
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Benjamin Cain
The Kernel of Truth in Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Juvenile Scientism

The Kernel of Truth in Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Juvenile Scientism

Why philosophy is poison for the average person
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Benjamin Cain
The Uncomplicated Core of Existentialism

The Uncomplicated Core of Existentialism

Why existential philosophy doesn’t have to be a surfeit of pretentious obscurities
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Benjamin Cain
Can Naturalness be Naturalized?

Can Naturalness be Naturalized?

The role of self-knowledge in cosmology
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Benjamin Cain
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