Against consolation
Notes on the old habit of mistaking comfort for truth, and of treating existential panic as though it were a peer-reviewed metaphysical method.
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Dispatches from City of Dis
The Dispatches section is being assembled: short essays, polemics, corrections, marginalia, and regrettably necessary acts of intellectual pest control. No salvation is being prepared. No cosmic reassurance has been delayed in transit.
Future dispatches will appear here as the archive is brought into order. Expect brief pieces on religion, evidence, metaphysics, pseudoscience, internet apologetics, cosmic horror, and the recurring human belief that the universe is somehow waiting for our personal statement.
Sacred special pleading
Short corrections for claims that arrive wrapped in holiness and then demand exemption from the ordinary standards applied to everything else.
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Fragments, replies, and forensic notes from the places where logic goes to be shouted at by a man with a flag, a meme, and a YouTube doctorate.
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