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Essays & Criticism 31

Affective Empathy is EvilThe machinery of mediated feeling and holy cruelty.SEssayAmerica Did Not Lose the War in AfghanistanEmpire, victory, and the intelligence state after the forever war.SEssayHow Can Many Religions Be TrueA clean argument for plural truth without flattening the gods.SEssayIs Rationalism a Religion - What is a ReligionThe rationalist altar, named in its own language.SEssayThe Internet Is Full of People Who Can Read but Cannot Think: Enter the SkimwitA diagnosis of shallow reading after the midwit fell off.SEssayThe Tragedy of the Commons Is a MythEnclosure as conquest, not inevitable economics.SEssayWhat Women Actually WantAgainst male optimization fantasies and their social blindness.SEssayYou Do Not Have Aphantasia (Probably)Online self-diagnosis and the poverty of imagination discourse.SEssayArgument for UBIA materialist UBI argument for the automation economy.AEssayAspergers, OCD, and AuOCDClassical Asperger's, OCD, and why the autism umbrella keeps flattening people.AEssayBuddhism in the United StatesAmerican Buddhism, upaya, convert institutions, and the shape of a religion after migration.AEssayConsciousness and MindMind as ground, and why personhood is not the only form of participation.AEssayEaster SermonSpring, resurrection, Passover, and the light returning as literal fact.AEssayGuest and HostSacrifice, hospitality, and the violence hidden inside civilization.AEssayLove in the New WorldFound tribes, privacy collapse, and the new weather of intimacy.AEssayMama Said Knock You OutRebel violence, folk judgment, and who gets called a monster.AEssayNew York City EthnographyA field note on neighborhood, ethnicity, and social weather.AEssayOn Judas and JesusA necessary betrayal at the center of salvation.AEssayON THE WORDCELS AND THEIR FOUL LIESAgainst semantic flatness and the tyranny of verbal literalism.AEssaySmol Bean Fascism, Why Liberalism WonOnline fascist aesthetics as liberalism's strangest trophy.AEssayThe Flower SermonThe Buddha's flower as the cleanest transmission of wisdom beyond explanation.AEssayThe Point of Civilization is UtopiaCivilization is justified by paradise, not by chores.AEssayTrue Polytheism Has Never Been TriedWhat polytheism implies when taken all the way down.AEssayWhat Does it Mean to Kill BuddhaReligious maturity after the projected teacher dies.AEssayWho Benefits From Your Child's Broken WillObedience, punishment, and the social use of crushed children.AEssayWhy Did Jesus Die?Death, sacrifice, and necessity in the Jesus story.AEssayYou Might Be Intersex Not TransA personal health essay on intersex embodiment, HRT, and diagnosis.AEssayIn 2025 Everyone is a ShamanMass initiation in the ruins of expert religion.BEssayIntroduction to MagicMagic as mind-work, not make-believe.BEssayOn What It Means To Be Sincerely ReligiousFaith before correctness, compassion before performance.BEssayPolitical Beliefs and ConstitutionalismA long personal map of constitutionalism, free speech, empire, and American political theater.BEssay

Fragments & Briefs 9

Poetry & Literary Prose 17

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