Company gone away in the world already
“How many in whose company I came into the world are gone away already!” — Meditations, book 6, 56. I can imagine Marcus Aurelius writing these words while encamped Continue Reading
Apranihita: The Radical Philosophy of Aimlessness in an Age of Consumerism
Apranihita is a Sanskrit term meaning “wishlessness”, “aimlessness”, or “freedom from striving”. In Buddhist thought, it refers to a deep letting go—the abandonment of chasing, grasping, or needing things to Continue Reading
The Pale Criminal & Judge Holden, a Nietzschean and Jungian interpretation.
The Pale Criminal? In Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra, the chapter titled “Of the Pale Criminal” presents one of the most enigmatic and psychologically rich parables in all of his Continue Reading
The Fire of Becoming: Heraclitus, Judge Holden, and the Eternal Strife of the World
“Thus the world is not to be identified with any particular substance, but rather with an ongoing process governed by a law of change.” — Heraclitus (source) This Continue Reading
Cultural Hegemony in Action
I’ve spent a good deal of time digesting Antonio Gramsci’s writings this year, the Italian marxist famous for his writing his Prison Notebooks while locked up in Mussolini’s prison. Areas Continue Reading
No Soul, No Problem: Feuerbach and the Myth of Mind–Body Dualism
The dualism of mind and body—the belief that we possess an incorporeal essence, a soul that is truly “us,” and that the body is merely a vessel or flesh-puppet animated Continue Reading
What is it like to be a mystic?
As many of my regular readers know, I’m a mystic, a Christian mystic, I’m not an orthodox believer, I’ve never been one for the crowd or the mob. I’ve always Continue Reading
S***’s Creek Without Marxist Dialectics: A brief history of Britain
Introduction I’ve been working on this article for some time now, here and there dipping into Historical materialism, the primary Marxist methodology to studying not just history, but the approach Continue Reading
Does God Exist?
The thing about reading a lot of Nietzsche is that he regularly and without fail drops a truth bomb on you of epic proportions, the type of thing that will Continue Reading
This world is the will to power—and nothing besides!
“This world is the will to power—and nothing besides! And you yourselves are also this will to power—and nothing besides!” Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power Friedrich Nietzsche, the Continue Reading
What is hyperreality and why it matters
Has the thought ever crossed your mind that life feels increasingly artificial, as if everything around us is more curated than real? In an age dominated by screens, media, and Continue Reading
Nietzsche and Morality
Nietzsche would no doubt consider me to be a weak man, a member of ‘the herd,’ because of my reluctance to cause harm, even to my enemies. Instead, I outsource Continue Reading
The Immortality Illusion
Our focus is fame’s ancient precursor: kleos! And I’d like to explore it in some depth so I can set the tone of this article. Kleos is an ancient Greek Continue Reading
The Illusion of Suffering
If we could sum up the essence of this article in one overarching sentiment, it would be captured by this quote from our favourite Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius: “Whatever the Continue Reading
Why you should always pet a cat whenever you meet one on the street.
Yes, I’m aware that Jordan B Peterson has a chapter with the same or a similar title, I’ve got the book 12 Rules for Life, and I must admit that Continue Reading
If someone tried to take control of your body and make you a slave, you would fight for freedom.
“If someone tried to take control of your body and make you a slave, you would fight for freedom. Yet how easily you hand over your mind to anyone who Continue Reading
Those that we leave behind
I watched Jordan Peterson’s interview with Elon Musk recently and to be fair it was pretty interesting, but I was staggered to hear that one of Elon’s Friends, namely Larry Continue Reading
The Great Economic Chain
The Great Chain of Being was once a dominant concept that provided a vertically ranked hierarchical structure to the universe, with God at the top, followed by angels, humans, Continue Reading