The Butcher’s Finger
I recently read On the Sufferings of the World, a philosophically pessimistic essay by Arthur Schopenhauer — the great German pessimist whose influence stretched all the way to Friedrich Nietzsche. Continue Reading
You are a Repeating Pattern in the Cosmos
Did you know that everyone has got a twin, an identical twin, some have been lucky enough to have been born with them here on this version of planet Earth, Continue Reading
God the Producer; Divinisation of Creation
There is a familiar claim in religion: God created the world. It is presented as a statement about reality, a metaphysical fact about the origin of things. But in The Continue Reading
God is Man’s Mirror: Feuerbach and the Projection of Human Nature
There is a long-standing assumption at the heart of religion: that man is the creation, and God the creator. Lo and behold, man was poofed into existence, taking on the Continue Reading
The Understanding: Why It Matters for Freedom and Independence
I’ve been reading Ludwig Feuerbach’s The Essence of Christianity since Christmas last year. It’s not a light read, but it’s one of those books that rewards patience — the kind Continue Reading
Who is this Dark Maiden, Who is Amelia?
Who Is Amelia? A very old archetype has awakened, one that signifies discontent, one that has taken the world by storm, starting in Britain, the result of some seriously woke Continue Reading
My response to Brain Cox on meaning
I recently watched this Joe Rogan episode featuring British physicist Brian Cox, here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc7OHXJtWco&t=1012s Somewhere amid the cosmology and particle-physics digressions, the conversation drifted toward meaning. Cox Continue Reading
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
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
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