Compass Rose

On Some Buddhist Teachings

CPTSD and Attachment

Jargon and Attachment

Honey Butter and the Grain War

Pete Walker's Model of CPTSD

Self-Criticism vs Self-Blame

Inner Ring as Adversary

Floating into Awareness

Who controls the vertical?

Language, Power, and the Categorical Imperative

The Trauma Coup

Civil Law and Political Drama

Childhood Memory

D is for COVID

The Logic of Pol Pot

Compassionate Defetishization by Mindfully Viewing Pornography

To-Do Stress

On Transgressive Coordination

On Straussian Esoteric Readings

What is Stockholm Syndrome?

Against Conservative Liberalism

Aphorisms from Twitter

Reason as an Identity Group

Bob the Builder, and the Neo-Puritan Deal

The motivation to write

Estimating COVID-19 Mortality Rates

Can crimes be discussed literally?

Can the equity premium help us identify stock market bubbles?

When to Reverse Quarantine and Other COVID-19 Considerations

Simulacra and Subjectivity

Approval Extraction Advertised as Production

Judgment, Punishment, and the Information-Suppression Field

Alarm fatigue vs systematic critique

On street violence

Blatant lies are the best kind!

Reason isn't magic

A drowning child is hard to find

Xanadu riffs

A War of Ants and Grasshoppers

Towards optimal play as Villager in a mixed game

Pecking Order and wings

Blame games

Should Effective Altruism be at war with North Korea?

Totalitarian ethical systems

Authoritarian empiricism

Commentary on Philosophy War

Excerpts from a larger discussion about simulacra

Blackmailers are privateers in the war on hypocrisy

MeToo is good

Why I am no longer supporting REACH