How—and why!—countercultures sought to reform psychologies and polities: to counteract alienation, anxiety, and anomie.| Meaningness
Available ethical theories are either eternalist or nihilist; both are useless. We must recognize that ethics are both nebulous and meaningful.| Meaningness
Rationalism responds to its failures, in the face of nebulosity, by making more complicated formal theories.| Meta-rationality
Nietzsche, Vajrayana, and nobility| meaningness.substack.com
The culture war, political polarization, Baby Boomer bafflement: the unending zombie slugfest pairing the two countercultures of the 1960s-80s.| Meaningness
Defining the subject matter: rationality, rationalism, reasonableness, and meta-rationality.| Meta-rationality
Reconfiguring categories, properties, and relationships is a meta-rational skill—key in scientific revolutions.| Meta-rationality
Explore the ideas of Meaningness in greater depth by reading the books that inspired it| Meaningness
Improving artificial intelligence research with scientific testing, design practice, and meta-rational choice of methods and criteria| Better without AI
Modernity was built on certainty in science and mathematics. That was revealed as delusional during the early 20th century.| Meaningness