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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.
• [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.