List: History | Curated by Benjamin Cain

Feb 18, 2025
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From Prehistoric Naivety to Hypermodern AlienationMetahistory and the promethean revolt
Oct 26, 2020
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Oct 26, 2020
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Were Prehistoric People Childlike?Diagnosing the incoherence of “The Dawn of Everything”
Jun 1, 2022
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Jun 1, 2022
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Grim Tidings
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How All Cultures Have Absurd OriginsAnarchic prehistory, children’s games, and the trance behind social conformity
Jun 8, 2022
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Jun 8, 2022
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Grim Tidings
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Psychopathy is the Linchpin of CivilizationsThe history of how urban environments have sorted us like wild animals
Jul 11, 2024
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Jul 11, 2024
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
Prehistoric Anarchists, Civilized Dominators, and Alienated PosthumansThe history of our shifting environments
Jul 18, 2024
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Jul 18, 2024
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Have We Been Conned Into Civilization?And is our defense of civilization still faith-based?
Jul 2, 2021
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Jul 2, 2021
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An Injustice!
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Civilization is like a Ponzi SchemeA dire analogy between Ponzi schemes and the perpetuation of wayward institutions
Jan 16, 2024
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Jan 16, 2024
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An Injustice!
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Benjamin Cain
Are Cultures Just Big, Compromised Cults?How to deepen our perspectives by appreciating what’s hiding in plain sight
Mar 8, 2023
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Mar 8, 2023
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Grim Tidings
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Unmasking the Cultish Traits of Mainstream SocietiesI dare you to test whether your culture is less cultish than the Heaven’s Gate cult
May 26, 2023
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May 26, 2023
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Grim Tidings
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How the Mass Mind Absorbs Potent CounterculturesIs the co-optation always degrading, politically compromised, and dishonourable?
Mar 28, 2023
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Mar 28, 2023
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Philosophy Today
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Benjamin Cain
The Bitter Ironies of Historical ProgressWe degrade and doom our descendants by overcoming harsh environments
Nov 13, 2024
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Nov 13, 2024
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Cycles, Progress, and the Clash of CivilizationsThe carbon cycle and the calamity of Western individualism
Dec 16, 2020
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Dec 16, 2020
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Grim Tidings
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Noble Lies and the Recurring Withdrawals of Neo-ShamansThe cycle of social compromises and countercultural reforms
Aug 28, 2023
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Aug 28, 2023
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Must Civilization be Saved by Neoshamans?When social progress and distractions meet the lingering existential predicament
Oct 16, 2023
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Oct 16, 2023
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Modernity is Countercultural, So It’s DoomedSecular humanism is fit only for elites who reject the ancient social norms, and elites are always rare
Aug 12, 2024
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Aug 12, 2024
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Grim Tidings
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Should We Psychoanalyze the Mystics of the Axial Age?Assessing Bard’s and Söderqvist’s Lacanian screed in “Process and Event”
Nov 30, 2023
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Nov 30, 2023
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Grim Tidings
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The Alt-Right’s Reverence for the Naturalness of CapitalismAnd the sociobiological screed in Bard’s and Söderqvist’s “Process and Event”
Dec 7, 2023
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Dec 7, 2023
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Grim Tidings
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How Artistic Standards Can Lead Philosophers AstrayA case study of how muddled literary philosophy can get, using the book “Process and Event”
Dec 14, 2023
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Dec 14, 2023
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Grim Tidings
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The Vindication of Autocracy in the Face of Wild NatureLuck and the liberal’s faith in civilized freedom
Apr 2, 2024
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Apr 2, 2024
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Teatime History
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The Perversity of Thanking Christendom for Modern ProgressExposing the fallacies and sophistries from Tom Holland’s book “Dominion.”
Jun 18, 2024
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Jun 18, 2024
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