Metarationalist Ephemera

Foreshadowed by my musings on adulthood, what I’m presenting here is the temporary result of my efforts pondering the core of the concept of “freedom”. I have come to the conclusion that what we call “freedom” relies on two great assumptions: 1) humans have free will; 2) free will ultimately depends on the ability of [...]

I recently got to read this post that attempts to speak against the concept of consensus politics which I’ve been promoting. Although I find myself agreeing with some of the criticisms made against “democracy” as we currently know it, the claim that a constitution would somehow be better than consensus politics disregards the fact that [...]

This was written as an explanation of my standpoint on this divisive issue in the wake of the recent events in San Francisco. Circumcision has been performed on children, male and female, in many cultures throughout history. The elementary aspects of circumcision are most often that of an initiative ritual where one gender, or both, [...]

This is a (rough) translation – with my own minor subjectively assessed improvements – of part of an article published in French at the blog of a fellow anarchist and Quebecker, Anarcho-pragmatisme. The debate on property is probably the most fundamental debate among anarchists, and there is no clear consensus on this issue within the [...]

An aspect often overlooked in normative theory is the intricacy of irrational feelings and personal reality. The boundary between “feelings/intuition” and “objective perception” is a murky one that most ideologues like to conveniently ignore. Politicians are unlikely to become politicians under the assumption that they’re not objectively right as to what is best for everyone. [...]

I recently finished watching Elfen Lied, which was recommended to me by a friend. It was overall an interesting exploration of themes such as “social alienation, identity, prejudice, revenge, abuse, jealousy, regret and the value of humanity”, quoth Wikipedia. This… highly joyful anime, in which there’s more ecchi and gore in close proximity than in [...]

This post will explain what I believe to be one possible axiomatic that can demonstrate why panarchism  – or most other flavours of anarchism, for that matter – would be a “fair” political system. The greatest issue that is tackled by this axiomatic is that of defining “fairness” itself. To avoid the pitfalls inherent to [...]

This is a critical synthesis of my main thoughts on education of the past 2-3 years. I find it a fertile idea to assume that schooling exists to transmit to youths a body of knowledge that cannot be transmitted by the parents, for two reasons: 1. The knowledge that must be passed on to the [...]

At the deepest core of politics lie what some call principles, attitudes, beliefs, values, axioms and all sorts of words that, for the purpose of this post, are conceptually identical. As none of those words even comes close to having the breadth and depth of what they are supposed to represent, this concept will hereby [...]

The concept of “wealth” is a recurrent theme in debates between the right and left: each side believes that their system has the most ethical way of managing wealth. The perspective we will defend here is our own – that of the left. First, it is essential to define “wealth”. As core premise of our [...]