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Everything Is Ideology — On the patterns you didn't choose

• [audio] Sages and Wisdom — 16 May 2026
  Empiricism and reflection rest on a third, intuitive way of knowing. The doctor and the guru run on the same authority structure—the only difference is the costume. Pick your sages by what sits underneath the figure, not the coat, or you lose to charlatans.
• [audio] The Scientific Ritual — 2 May 2026
  The scientific method is just another belief system, a ritual subject to errors of application like any other. And the consequence is a machine for generating exaggerations.
• [audio] It's Not Social Media, Life Is Just Worse — 18 Apr 2026
  Social media use probably isn’t the problem. It’s probably just the most visible symptom of a dozen structural problems getting worse at once. And the sad kids on TikTok might be there because they’re sad, not sad because they’re there.
• [article] Useful Men — 4 Apr 2026
  It’s true that the ‘pathways’ to manhood are closing. I don’t think it’s a crisis of masculinity though. It’s a crisis of no more excuses for incompetence. We’re trying to find the meaning of manhood when what we actually need are new skills. Men just need to be useful.
• [audio] Bias is Good — 21 Mar 2026
  Bias isn’t a flaw in human thinking—it’s a precision tool. The brain trades variance for consistency because the world is noisy. Stop trying to eliminate bias. Start identifying the beliefs that drive it.
• [audio] Atavism Isn't the Answer — 7 Feb 2026
  The return-to-nature movement bundles legitimate health concerns with pseudoscience using a single template: identify a modern problem, construct an ancestral narrative, sell the return as the cure. It rests on two contradictory assumptions—that we know what ancestral life was like, and that humans are simultaneously robust and fragile.
• [article] Stupid Questions — 1 Jan 2026
  Nature is just nurture over time, and nurture is far more obviously in charge; nothing changes if free will <em>isn’t</em> real; and the same is true of consciousness. They’re just complicated debates with no real outcomes.
• [marginalium] Is culture socially costly — 30 Jun 2025
• [marginalium] The Personal and Private Nature of Smartphones — 25 Jun 2025
• [marginalium] Caligula as an anti-ideology — 19 Jun 2025
• [marginalium] Why Individuals Avoid Information — 17 Jun 2025
• [marginalium] Politics and spirituality are entangled — 16 Jun 2025
• [marginalium] Preferring skilled migration enhances xenophobia — 7 Jun 2025
• [marginalium] What Is Centrism? — 6 Jun 2025
• [marginalium] The Era Of The Business Idiot — 23 May 2025