Reactionizm is the norm in history. “Today, however, billions of people have lost that faith in progress as a source of meaning and are flocking to its opposite. In the 21st century, traditionalism has emerged as a catalytic school of… Read More »History Is Running Backwards
Do we have any say in history? “The self you experience as yourself—the deliberate, choosing, narrating self—is not the primary phenomenon. It is a secondary formation, a surface effect produced by deeper processes. Your desires, your fears, your loves, your… Read More »Fate, Structure, Mimesis
Usually we deceive ourselves. “We are systematically deceived — not primarily by external temptation but by our own affections, which dress themselves as reasons.” https://tantaman.com/2026-04-06-jesuit-formation.html
It is all about stories. “The corporation does not wonder whether formation is possible. It has quarterly OKRs around it.” https://tantaman.com/2026-04-06-formation-we-admit-to.html
Religious people are often contempt with one book. Whole religion lasted for thousands of years just talking about the one book. People even disagree or interpret the same part of the same book differently, but they all think that the… Read More »Is One Book Enough?
Being right is not always the best survival strategy. “evolution doesn’t care about truth. It cares about fitness. And a belief system that produces depression, anxiety, declining fertility, and suicidal ideation at unprecedented rates might be worth examining—even if it… Read More »Materialism Is Killing You
You can interpret any text in many ways. “What Paul probably intended as survival advice for a tiny persecuted minority became, once Christianity had power, a blanket authorization for state authority. The text didn’t change. The context did. And suddenly… Read More »From Galilee to Empire: The Institutional Capture of Christianity
You are what you consume. “you become what you worship. Give your attention and devotion to something blind, and you go blind. Trust in something deaf, and you lose the capacity to hear. Serve something that cannot feel, and you… Read More »The Battlefield of Attention
Religion always gets used for power purposes. “European colonialism didn’t invent religious capture, but it industrialized it.” https://tantaman.substack.com/p/the-alchemy-of-power
Religion in another form is still doing the damage. “A system built on terror produced terrified people who perpetuated terror. A system built on lies produced people who could no longer distinguish truth. A system built on the surveillance of… Read More »Secularized Worship