All the Heart Wants Is Its Chance

by Asa Boxer

In the following essay Asa Boxer explores the relationship between New Atheist thought, Postmodernism and 21st century Social Justice (or bourgeois social justice), all of which share a common metaphysic or all of which agree on the same first principles: namely Mechanical Accidentalism, a fundamentally nihilistic view that conceives of the universe, evolution and consciousness as accidents. Here Boxer draws on ideas from Henri Bergson, William James and Iain McGilchrist (among others) to blast away at the New Atheist notion that present day science has everything figured out. To the contrary, Boxer claims very little is in fact understood and there is still much room for creative vitality.

Cerebramancy

A Cerebramantic Age is upon us, an age characterized by mantic cerebralism—an inconsistent and incoherent mindset that puts so much stock in abstract accounting, that those who consult its ledger-book to decode reality, read all of existence as a series of mechanical assemblies that have…