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Is Progress a Revolt Against Nature’s Wildness?

Is Progress a Revolt Against Nature’s Wildness?

A dialogue on the implications of secular humanism
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Benjamin Cain
What’s the Fastest Way to Forge an Intergalactic Empire?

What’s the Fastest Way to Forge an Intergalactic Empire?

Technoscientific progress and alt-right resentment
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Benjamin Cain
Modernity is Countercultural, So It’s Doomed

Modernity is Countercultural, So It’s Doomed

Secular humanism is fit only for elites who reject the ancient social norms, and elites are always rare
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Benjamin Cain
We’re All Ghosts Haunting Our Bodies

We’re All Ghosts Haunting Our Bodies

Why the conscious self is estranged from the physical universe
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Benjamin Cain
Warhammer 40k’s Grimdark Challenge to Humanists

Warhammer 40k’s Grimdark Challenge to Humanists

The paradoxical combo of cosmic horror and human progress
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Benjamin Cain
Nature’s Creativity Proves the Downfall of Nihilism

Nature’s Creativity Proves the Downfall of Nihilism

How a philosophical overview of science recovers life’s meaning
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Benjamin Cain
Big Tech Tribalism Crowds Out Science’s Humanist Ethos

Big Tech Tribalism Crowds Out Science’s Humanist Ethos

The irony of capitalism’s neofeudal impact on society
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The Technological Test of Human Pride

The Technological Test of Human Pride

If machines and AI can replace us, liberalism is as phony as ancient religious myths
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Benjamin Cain
Prehistoric Anarchists, Civilized Masters and Slaves, and Alienated Posthumans

Prehistoric Anarchists, Civilized Masters and Slaves, and Alienated...

The history of our shifting environments
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Benjamin Cain
From Eckhart Tolle’s “Power of Now” to the Horror of Nature

From Eckhart Tolle’s “Power of Now” to the Horror of Nature

Pantheism and the artist’s perspective on the perceived world
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Benjamin Cain
Psychopathy is the Linchpin of Civilizations

Psychopathy is the Linchpin of Civilizations

The history of how urban environments have sorted us like wild animals
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Benjamin Cain
The Quixotic Quest for Cosmic Progress

The Quixotic Quest for Cosmic Progress

Humanist aspirations and the disappointments of history
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Benjamin Cain
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