Metadelusion

Confiscating and redistributing the assets of the wealthiest people is a perennially popular idea, so let’s unpack it. Elon Musk is suppo...

People love to think that they’re special, but neuroscience says otherwise. Most of the hardware in our brains is common to all mammals. The...

Spiritual and religious people are frequently obsessed with innocence. This can be viewed more generally as an obsession with purity , which...

We are made of atoms, which are almost entirely empty. The universe contains billions of trillions of stars, many of them orbited by Earth-l...

My experience of engineering teaches me that what can happen, will happen eventually. Freedom tends to be utilized, and resources attract ...

Humanity isn’t failing because we’re dishonorable, we’re failing because we based our entire energy system on combustion, the exhaust of w...

I am of the minority opinion that the hype around 1.5° C was and is a type of greenwash. There never was any hope of holding the average g...

It’s long overdue to seriously address the decline of nearly everything, excepting processor power and societal incoherence. Near the core o...

People often ask me what pronouns I prefer. When I first started crossdressing in public in 1991, passing could be a matter of life and deat...

I got about a third of the way through “The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology” before I had to abort. It reminded me of all the reasons why I’ve a...

Humanity is severely afflicted by delusion. We yearn to be princes and princesses, riding glittery ponies in a fairy tale, unique and immort...

Interviewed by The Guardian, Bulgarian performance artist Marina Abramovic quoted Ayn Rand, saying “The question is not who is going to let...

I have lived my entire adult life in the looming shadow of ecological and societal collapse. By the age of thirteen I already clearly visual...

When Mahatma Gandhi was asked “What do you think of Western civilization?” he supposedly replied “I think it would be a good idea.” It’s a g...

It's easy to see that we've made a mess of earth, but harder to grasp that being apex predators this is primarily a problem for US, ...

COP21 was adopted today, and it's an interesting document. Each paragraph begins with an italicized verb, and they are: acknowledges, af...

Iara Lee's "Synthetic Pleasures" focuses on transhumanists and their terrifying delusions and hubris. It only considers our as...

Re [ RealClimate comment ] #69 “The poster is deluding himself”: Delusion is an important part of our evolutionary toolkit. We tell ourselve...

I’m primarily focused on climate change, economic stratification, and unchecked development, and in my view these share a common cause, whi...

You may have read Naomi Klein’s recent Salon interview in which she posits that "Green groups may be more damaging than climate change...

Boston is encircled by a ring road called Route 128, along which you can occasionally see signs that say "America's Technology High...

To the Honorable Michael Capuano: Dear Sir, The Honorable Sheldon Whitehouse's "Time to Wake Up" speech exemplifies the bold...

Oregon man spends $27,000 on a single bottle of Scotch I find it fascinating that criticism of selfishness is consistently interpreted as ...

The neurotic obsession with weapons is an expression of selfishness, and reflects a splintered, delusional society teetering on the brink of...

I wasn't kidding about Climate Change Stress Disorder. Climate change is ruining my life. Just look at my reading list from the last co...

Regarding the alleged majority of voters who care about climate change: even if that's so and Obama is reelected, judging by Obama's...

@435 SecularAnimist: I think it is arguable that empiricism - which is the heart of science - is responsible for essentially all of humani...

James Hansen is sometimes accused of overstating his case, but I find him controversial for an entirely different reason: he consistently ...

Bruce Mau doesn't want to imagine a world without oil since it would be boring and bad for his business model, so you shouldn't t...

“The very idea that human beings, who are demonstrably unable to control our own most destructive behaviors, are going to be “stewards of t...

SA @307: Of course the cessation of human activities, such as the extraction and combustion of fossil fuels, that would accompany the disapp...

SecularAnimist @303 said: And social animals, including chimpanzees and wolves, clearly do have rights within the context of their social g...

Edward Greisch @ 296 said: Science is not "fundamentally progressive" Progressivism refers not only to the corresponding period...