All That Is Meaningful Is Imaginary

[<-- Previous post: Transition and Progress] This is the third installment of the series of joint posts by Azarius and Reikoku on the topic of panarchism. You are unlikely to understand much of it if you haven’t read the two previous posts yet. Creating a system from scratch requires that a large amount of resources [...]

I am usually a harsh critic of the concept of games, which I tend to find pointless, boring and ugly, save for some in exceptional social settings where the people I’m with aren’t well-versed in human and/or social sciences. Games imply that we abide by arbitrary rules for arbitrary purposes, all of which too often [...]

I have created the following diagram of possible ideologies (inside the square) and utopias (outside the square) in the 21st Century as part of the first appendix to my mid-term essay in Idéologie et société (SOC 4709) with Diane Pacom – a course that is highly relevant to my interests, and to this blog. [Click [...]

The following series of joint blog posts by Azarius and Reikoku is the result of long, at times painful, debates on the nature of political ideals, utopias, and ethics. Indeed, politics, in the end, amount to ethics applied to a community of “responsible adults” – the Greek polis. Accordingly, the common axiom that sparked our [...]

I am anti-capitalist, anti-consumerist, anti-materialist and generally opposed to any approach bearing resemblance to economic reductionism. As such, I oppose both classic Marxist analysis and liberal economic analysis. That does not mean I do not recognise the importance of material wealth, or even of trade. I simply do not believe that it determines human life, [...]

I just had to write that post some day… oddly enough it was mostly written while sober. As were temporarily shattered memories and feelings long deemed useless, there resulted a distinctive euphoria, a state of consciousness immersed in the Now. I remembered vaguely the after-taste of the herb, still present in my mouth.

Do you understand this sentence? Just what do we understand? What is understanding? Just what do we know in the end? Without questions, implicit or explicit, comprehension holds no meaning. Even questioning – and rejecting – knowledge yields knowledge and not semantic void. There is simply no semantic void: everything within the human mind holds [...]

I have long called for a radical reshaping of education. More recently, as I find myself agreeing with panarchism, I have discussed with Reikoku of what could education look like in a much more libertarian world. The general idea of a modular education at all levels, outlined in a previous post, remains relevant. However, several [...]

An ideally free society isn’t a utopia where there would be no murderers and no rapists. There will most likely be humans exhibiting excessively anti-social behaviour for as long as mankind exists. Investing resources towards the eradication of crime as a concept is the broader problematic approach that comprises absurdities such as the “war on [...]