Sitemap - 2023 - Rarely Certain
Unexciting moderation in all things
A vaguely festively oriented smorgasbord of disparate thoughts, observations and stuff
Let's not turn Substack into the next OnlyFans
Faster, FASTER! 'til it breaks ...
Choosing to weigh industrial-scale slaughter against bacchanalian ultraviolence
Marginalia & recommended reading
I learned more about totalitarianism from Dostoevsky than by reading Hannah Arendt
How another of my favourite moral panics turned out to be a damp squib
[Subscribers only] A musical interlude
Rarely Certain recommends: noticing how damned capitalist Wokeism really is
If you don't pay attention you'll be a prisoner of the vibe
Never be afraid to be real - and always ask the stupidest questions
Call me old fashioned, but I still cling to an idea that the academe should stick to scholarship
Scientific and technocratic communication really is shockingly bad
Beware snake oil cultural commentary
On resilience and resistance to catastrophising
Two-year anniversary and Covid brain fog edition
Thoughts on predictable reactions and partial reporting around a sadly familiar story
On intuitions about a culture that obscures reality while affecting to define it
Modern liberal etiology and stories as folk myth
Why I'm cautious about insisting that I know things outside of my own domain
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting
How I became reactionary - part 2
How I became reactionary - part 1
Who are we and how do we know?
One weird trick to make sympathisers turn against you
Thinking of ideology as the heat source driving cultural entropy
When everything is artifice, what is real?
It's hard to be an enthusiastic 21st century liberal
Fear and loathing on the road to having fewer nice things
Degradation, death and platitudes; it's all going on behind our 'green' consumer choices
Suffocating goats for 'sustainable' fashion
On living a post-partisan life
Brace, brace, comrades ... I'm letting go
It's weird, but I could have sworn that this thing you say is settled is actually strongly contested
Some things just keep needing to be said
Let he who has never swallowed a conspiracy theory cast the first stone
Obliquely Weekly #5 - salty insights into uncleverness and religion
Networked emotional contagion, continuous performance assessment & the unquiet mind
Resisting the Great Awokening ... from the left
Current status: bemused. Also frustrated.
Obliquely Weekly #4 - an addendum to this week's 'epic'
See you over by the sweet spot - betwixt conjectural bluster and doctrinaire conformity