Arts Magazine - The Secular Heretic

Vaccine Passports Cause Hate: Segregation & the COVID Regime

Published by Asa Boxer

In this essay, Asa Boxer examines the potentially horrifying consequences of the hate speech being currently deployed by world leaders in order to gain public acceptance of vaccine passports...

September 20, 2021

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Covid-19, Science

Two Poems by Ricardo Pau-Llosa

Published by Ricardo Pau-Llosa

A world is no less itself when upside down / reflected in the pool, as if dangled from its heels / like a prisoner already confessing his innocence /...

June 15, 2021

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Poetry

Two Poems by Stefan Sullivan

Published by Stefan Sullivan

As a boy in Nowhere, Illinois, I came across / The Ratline: Notorious Nazis on the Lam, a book / about death-camp goons snaking / through the high grass...

June 15, 2021

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Poetry

Am I Brainwashed? – Finding the Real Reality

Published by Asa Boxer

By definition, indoctrination immures the imagination and subjugates the will; it unduly narrows your range of experience and thereby limits your relationship with the universe, your ability to commune...

June 15, 2021

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Heresies, Metaphysics, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Science

“Stay Safe!”: The Rise of Safetyism

Published by Frances Hutchens

Safetyism is founded on the concept of someone else knowing what’s best for you; you are freed from having to determine your own choices, freed from weighing up logic...

June 15, 2021

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Anthropology, Covid-19, Education, Heresies, History, Mental Health, Science, Urban Design

Danger Poems

Published by Asa Boxer

I plunged just as deep into myself / as into the swaying sea / and freed the dolphin sleeping / there under chains of memory. / But I sensed...

June 15, 2021

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Literature, Poetry

Damned Lies and Statistics: Climate Change & Covid-19

Published by David Solway

Global Warming statistics are among the most readily manipulable, delivering factoids that are true and yet false—in other words, in other words. The tactic is to present a lesser...

June 15, 2021

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Climate Change, Covid-19, Medicine, Science

Covid Heretic

Published by The Secular Heretic

The aim of “Covid Heretic” is to provide a resource page for those seeking reliable sources on the subject of viral transmission and lockdowns during an information crisis.

April 7, 2021

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Biology, Covid-19, Heresies, Medicine, Science

The Mask of the Blue Death

Published by Marko Sijan

These horrifying mutations brought about the Age of Permanent Safety, when the Blue Death was, the health experts informed us, still very little understood. They arranged their data to...

December 24, 2020

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Covid-19, Fiction, Heresies

Hashtag Suicide is the Best Vaccine

Published by Anonymous

It all begins here with an utterance, a scrambled item of speech requiring brain time to reconstruct: “Two metres.” Grumbled and garbled, the words issue from a mask. A...

December 24, 2020

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Anthropology, Covid-19, Fiction, Heresies, Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Prose

It’s Time to Stop Wearing Masks

Published by David Solway

COVID Rage is all the rage. And I am always astounded by the level of ignorance wedded to self-righteousness among the unvisaged, the tendency to follow the diktats of...

December 24, 2020

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Covid-19, Heresies, Medicine, Science

A Metaphysics of Social Collapse

Published by Asa Boxer

A culture unravels inevitably because it takes its paradigm, worldview, metaphysic, first principles to their logical conclusion through a deductive process, a reductio ad absurdum, at which point the...

December 24, 2020

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Covid-19, Education, Heresies, Mental Health, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Religion, Spirituality

Rede-phi-ning π: On Measuring a Circle

Published by J.F. Meyer

The following investigation is a product of the ongoing scientific inquiry ‘whence human suffering?‘, the same encountering a critical need to call into serious question the long-standing pi (π) “approximation”...

December 24, 2020

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History, Mathematics, Metaphysics, Philosophy

“Following Hanshan” by Fenyang Shanzhao

Published by Chris Byrne

Gary Snyder’s lively translations of Hanshan (Cold Mountain), along with their fictional account in Jack Kerouac’s Dharma Bums, have since inspired numerous poets and translators to mimic Hanshan’s raw...

December 24, 2020

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Poetry, Religion, Spirituality

Two Poems by Eugenio Montale

Published by Donald McGrath

Bring me the sunflower so I can plant / it in my salt-scorched patch of earth, so it can throw / back to the day’s reflecting blue / the...

December 24, 2020

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Poetry