Religious Exemptions

There’s something absurd about having to justify one’s religious belief to some bureaucrat. I’d like to see the secular state try to identify, let alone justify, its own religious precepts.

Corruption Happens

When we corrupt truth and goodness and beauty the world becomes incoherent. Self-naming is the corruption that corrupts all things. We have to understand we’re part of a larger story. And freedom is a good that must integrate with other goods.

A Million Angry Shards

Society is fast becoming a dysfunctional madhouse. We retain an image of morality without the actual content, splintered into a million angry shards. We reinforce our increasingly incoherent values with circular reasoning and other forms of paralogic. We cannot speak intelligibly about tradeoffs. Meaning and purpose are largely a mystery. We see no solutions that aren’t technological or bureaucratic.