List: Popular Farces | Curated by Benjamin Cain

Feb 11, 2025
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Popular Farces
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
American Infantilization and the Age of ReasonExploring the causes of infantilization in consumer culture
Nov 25, 2019
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Nov 25, 2019
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The Apeiron Blog
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Benjamin Cain
Progress and American InfantilismThe prospects for adult babes in the woods
Dec 12, 2020
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Dec 12, 2020
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An Injustice!
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Benjamin Cain
Can Consumers Escape being Infantilized?Neoliberal psychiatry and the immaturity of mainstream liberal adults
Jul 18, 2023
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Jul 18, 2023
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Grim Tidings
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Selling Superstardom with the Myth of the Hero’s JourneyThe clash between the model of adventure and the Pareto principle
Sep 25, 2023
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Sep 25, 2023
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Grim Tidings
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The Villain’s Journey Towards Embracing Antisocial RealitySociety’s heroes are the existentialist’s villains
Sep 29, 2023
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Sep 29, 2023
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Social Progress and the Taming of Modern HeroesPlus the awkward question of our collective heroism or villainy
Oct 2, 2023
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Oct 2, 2023
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What is a Wasted Life?Consumerism and the reckoning with life’s absurdity
Nov 3, 2022
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Nov 3, 2022
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Philosophy Today
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Benjamin Cain
The Philosophical Relevance of Science FictionA secular substitute for myth and theology
Feb 11
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Feb 11
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An Injustice!
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Benjamin Cain
UFOs as Apocalyptic Threats to Human PrideThe whistleblower David Grusch’s “ontological shock” to conformists
Jul 12, 2023
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Jul 12, 2023
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Apocalyptic Revelations and the UFO CoverupThe most plausible reason for the coverup would also be the most terrifying
Dec 18, 2024
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Dec 18, 2024
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
Is the Mind the Tool-User or a Tool?The meaning of life for the self that the brain imagines
Jul 3, 2023
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Jul 3, 2023
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
How the Mind is the Brain’s Clothing that Mistakes Itself for a SpiritMaking sense of the illusion of our inner self
Jul 20, 2023
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Jul 20, 2023
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Curated Newsletters
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Benjamin Cain
How Technology Embodies our Alienation from NatureGunther Anders, the biblical fig leaf, and promethean progress
Jun 6, 2022
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Jun 6, 2022
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
The Internet’s Role in Fostering Postmodern NihilismA dialogue on the remedies for late-modern angst and cynicism
Jan 20
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Jan 20
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
How the Mind’s Felt Mastery of the Body Set the Agenda for TechnologiesPerfecting body and mind with more efficient devices, and the irony of the upper class’s replacement by computers
Apr 13, 2023
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Apr 13, 2023
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
The Technological Test of Human PrideIf machines and AI can replace us, liberalism is as phony as ancient religious myths
Jul 22, 2024
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Jul 22, 2024
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
Technology Sings Hymns to Our Impending GodhoodHow technology automates religious ritual
Apr 18, 2024
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Apr 18, 2024
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
Warhammer 40k’s Grimdark Challenge to HumanistsThe paradoxical combo of cosmic horror and human progress
Aug 1, 2024
Aug 1, 2024
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Benjamin Cain
The Varieties of Magic in a Disenchanted CosmosSorting through animism, high technology, and the cruel wilderness
Aug 21, 2023
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Aug 21, 2023
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Benjamin Cain
How We Hide the Conflict Between Capitalism and Technological ProgressLuddites, technophiles, and the transhuman aristocracy
Apr 11, 2023
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Apr 11, 2023
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