# utilitarian (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover utilitarian. Page: Feed: --- ## [Evasion strategies for belief system defence](https://backcountrypsych.substack.com/p/evasion-strategies-for-belief-system) _2026-02-16 · Brandon · Backcountry Psychology_ A funny new study outlines strategies that people use to slip and slide away from morally objectionable scientific research. More evidence for the importance of viewpoint diversity in academia. ## [The Dismal State of Masculinity Research](https://backcountrypsych.substack.com/p/the-dismal-state-of-masculinity-research) _2026-01-21 · Brandon · Backcountry Psychology_ Social science still acting as propaganda, defenestrating anything not radical, and then slamming the Overton window behind it. ## [The warmth of corruptivism](https://backcountrypsych.substack.com/p/the-warmth-of-corruptivism) _2026-01-16 · Brandon · Backcountry Psychology_ Leftists relate to the concept of collectivism purely based on vibes. They don't realize that what they want only Western individualism can give them, and collectivism is its antithesis. ## [Thinking, Fast and Loose](https://backcountrypsych.substack.com/p/thinking-fast-and-loose) _2025-10-21 · Brandon · Backcountry Psychology_ On public intellectual masturbation. Progressives think they’re System 2 and everyone else is System 1. ## [The Classroom Panic Over ‘Trump Boys’: The ideological bias of NZ educators](https://backcountrypsych.substack.com/p/the-classroom-panic-over-trump-boys) _2025-10-01 · Brandon · Backcountry Psychology_ A moral panic stirred up by the fact that young people no longer buy the hyper-progressive narratives enforced in school. Yell "toxic", "Trump", and "trad" as if that constitutes an argument. ## [A Fetish for Theory](https://backcountrypsych.substack.com/p/a-fetish-for-theory) _2025-07-30 · Brandon · Backcountry Psychology_ On the now widespread idea that theory will fix everything in the social sciences. In the absence of viewpoint diversity, it won't. ## [The Invisible Left Hand](https://backcountrypsych.substack.com/p/the-invisible-left-hand) _2025-07-07 · Brandon · Backcountry Psychology_ The left's outlook on tradition, morality, stigma, social norms, etc., shows they believe in the underlying logic of the 'invisible hand'—just not in economics, where it actually works. ## [Transhumanist schizophrenia](https://backcountrypsych.substack.com/p/transhumanist-schizoids) _2025-06-30 · Brandon · Backcountry Psychology_ On my brief but surreal interaction with a transhumanist/tech accelerationist. it's like talking to a schizophrenic patient, or sci-fi fan on mushrooms. Their politics is aliens and sun explosions. ## ["Total suffering" is not real (against utilitarians, part 3)](https://backcountrypsych.substack.com/p/total-suffering-is-not-real) _2025-06-24 · Brandon · Backcountry Psychology_ A final thought on utilitarian moral calculus. ## [Nature is not "hell" (against utilitarians, part 2)](https://backcountrypsych.substack.com/p/nature-is-not-hell) _2025-06-10 · Brandon · Backcountry Psychology_ Hypersensitive urban utilitarians who, apparently, have never been in nature, think that nature is defined by extreme suffering, that most animals live "hellish" lives. It's not true. ## [Install Manifest V3 Extension (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ESzDgHQWN8pN) _2025-06-10 · **Sponsored**_ Get this Manifest V3 extension from the official TronBrowser Store listing. ## [Misspecified utilitarians hate existence (against utilitarians, part 1)](https://backcountrypsych.substack.com/p/misspecified-utilitarians-hate-existence) _2025-05-22 · Brandon · Backcountry Psychology_ Utilitarians' weird moral calculus, based in their inability to accept that suffering is part of life, leads them to, basically, a hatred of nature and existence. ## [Phantom limb](https://backcountrypsych.substack.com/p/phantom-limb) _2025-04-18 · Brandon · Backcountry Psychology_ A little topical vulnerability this Easter ## [Free Kiwis podcast appearance](https://backcountrypsych.substack.com/p/free-kiwis-podcast-appearance) _2025-04-06 · Brandon · Backcountry Psychology_ A sort of annotated bibliography for my first podcast appearance. Re: Affective polarization, therapy culture, authoritarianism, hunting. ## [Pious Fraud, or the Moral License to Lie](https://backcountrypsych.substack.com/p/pious-fraud-or-the-moral-license) _2025-02-13 · Brandon · Backcountry Psychology_ Moral licensing is "the heirloom of all philosophers and priests who 'improved' mankind. \[They\] have never doubted their right to lie." ## [Identity satiation](https://backcountrypsych.substack.com/p/identity-satiation) _2024-12-29 · Brandon · Backcountry Psychology_ Some rarely discussed psychological phenomena can shed light on why the focus on identity and introspection has coincided with a rise of mental health issues and identity disorders. ## [Reign of Error: The failure of social science.](https://backcountrypsych.substack.com/p/reign-of-error-the-failure-of-social) _2024-12-18 · Brandon · Backcountry Psychology_ Ideological homogeneity, the canonization of poor research, biased measurement, premature scientific foreclosure, invalid findings, citation bias, ignored alternative explanations... ## [Return to Paradise](https://backcountrypsych.substack.com/p/return-to-paradise) _2024-12-12 · Brandon · Backcountry Psychology_ Another one for the Outdoors section. I am completely burned out on social science and academia. Still keeping an eye on the exit. Here I discuss a hunting trip, Chamois, alpine frogs, etc. ## [A Tale of Two Rams: an account of wild sheep hunting in New Zealand](https://backcountrypsych.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-rams-an-account-of) _2024-10-18 · Brandon · Backcountry Psychology_ Sprinkled along the shores and slips above certain rivers in the central North Island of New Zealand you can find, in discrete little pockets, feral Merino sheep... ## [The Woke Left and The Ship of Theseus](https://backcountrypsych.substack.com/p/the-woke-left-and-the-ship-of-theseus) _2024-10-18 · Brandon · Backcountry Psychology_ A thought experiment can help highlight the fallacious thinking underlying the Left's worldview. ## [Crypto Payments, No Custody (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/hnLpka2w3f8i) _2024-10-18 · **Sponsored**_ Send crypto to merchant wallets via API with real-time updates and automatic fees. ## [Back-Country Therapy, or, Mountains and Mental Health](https://backcountrypsych.substack.com/p/back-country-therapy-or-mountains) _2024-10-15 · Brandon · Backcountry Psychology_ A story of hunting and battling near crippling panic attacks. How forcing myself back into the mountains helped to cure my anxiety. I call it Back-Country Therapy.