Kill the Buddha
2025
To the Ascetic of the Future.
Has anyone considered what it means, that the descendants of the world's most devoted fire cult, one day wished for "extinguishment"? That a culture does not only grow tired, but sick of itself: precisely that which animated the ancestors, is one day experienced as the root of evil.
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Tapetum Lucidum
2024
Consciousness and the Hostage Rescue of Meditation: a guide for the spiritually disenchanted. Neuroscience is made to pay up: to yield insight, reasons to be brave, reasons to endure the discipline and comedy that genuine meditative practice entails.
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Apesick
2024
Anthropology, evolutionary psychology, and sociology recast in the image of the mad weeping primate: it slowly dawns on this creature what he is.
A sequel to my previous work, with many hints of what's to come.
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Drawing on Foucault, Nietzsche, Arendt, Freud, and many more, this is a study of moral phenomena from the Axial Age philosophical revolutions, to the religious fervor of late antiquity, to the totalitarian movements of the 20th century, to the latest illuminating tales of the "immorality of morality" in our own impotent, absurd, and yet ominous age. Once again, the spirit of skepticism and healthy thinking is tested against the histrionic fictions of the protofascist: we seem bound to repeat our mistakes, but that should not compel the courageous and rational to preemptive silence.
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