Multiverse Minutiae

Kropotkin presents a scientific basis for understanding evolution as cooperation based rather than competition based. This presents a clear counter argument to social Darwinism which masquerades as scientific. The great anarchist Kropotkin, advances that Nature as we observe instructs us to mutual aid for the benefit of one another. However, I question the scientism of Kropotkin. If there ought to be no Gods and no Masters there ought to be no Nature. This lends to a metaphysical understanding forming the basis of anarchism . It includes the radical paradox of equality and freedom. How are the two to be reconciled? How does radical individual agency pair with the incredible interdependency of all life? The answer in the synthesis of mutual aid should be unrestrained from any a priori reliance on a Superior Authority whether it be Gods, Masters, or Natures from which we derive the basis of anarchism. Anarchism like mysticism is direct experience. It is lived in action a...

     Perhaps one of the most radical passages of the Bible is in Luke 12:53, “They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.” This is the best support for the Christian Anarchist’s advocating for the abolition of the family. The idea being that primacy of familial ties is in effect a form of racism in which those with blood ties are elevated above other human beings. This may seem like a radical notion with no good outcomes, but imagine a world in which we all care for each other regardless of specific familial preferences. Likewise, the individualist anarchist Ayn Rand compared partiality towards consanguinity with racism, as a small-scale manifestation of the latter. “The worship of the family is merely racism, like a crudely primitive first installment on the worship of the tribe. It places the accident...

Minarchist Councilism Mini-Manifesto  What we are witnessing in this country is a police riot. A police riot is a riot carried out by the police; a riot that the police are responsible for instigating, escalating or sustaining as a violent confrontation; an event characterized by widespread police brutality; a mass police action that is violently undertaken against civilians for the purpose of political repression. The term "police riot" was popularized after its use in the  Walker Report , which investigated the events at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago to describe the "unrestrained and indiscriminate" violence that the police "inflicted upon persons who had broken no law, disobeyed no order, made no threat." The night-watchman State has thus been militarized by neofascists.  So what then does policing policy mean to the minarcho-councilist night-watchman? The notion of “policy” presumes a state or governing apparatus which imposes ...

The deeper web of life that is the Earth. The metaphysics of material via the indwelling of spirit in all of nature. Earth focused people should rediscover their Promethean ambitions and counter reactionary neo-Malthusian ideology that diminishes human flourishing and will not save the planet. Promethean optimism recognizes that while at each stage of our history, as the result of solving past problems, new problems are created, we then must work - and often work very hard indeed - to overcome them. This is the principle of social sustainability - which Hans Jonas calls the “Imperative of Responsibility.” The pragmatic rule to give prophecy of doom priority over the prophecy of bliss. Due to our Promethean power, the whole biosphere of the planet - has been added to what we must be responsible for because of our power over it. Nature as a human responsibility is surely a question for Earth-centered ethical theory. However it is the goddess Gaia that we must turn to for inspirati...

Promethean Magic Why the best spiritual practice is the one you invent yourself!  The myth of Prometheus inspires a yearning for freedom in spiritual pursuits. There is no need for the memorization of liturgy, spells, ceremonies, arcana, and call-and-response recitations. Instead by focusing the will; directing the mental energies; synchronizing your mind, body, and emotions with the natural world; and — possibly — summoning unseen forces or entities—all things that are part of traditional ritualistic and ceremonial practice—are best approached in a mood of impulse, anarchy, and anything-goes effort. This is not the dismissal of the study of esoteric and ethical philosophies. But once you have assimilated the rulebook, or many rulebooks as the case may be, you must throw it away and dance on the edges of your intuition. This was true in a different line of work for the 20th century’s great abstract visual artists, such as Pollock and Dali, who knew quite well how to...

What better way to combine Science Fiction, Gnosticism and Utopianism than an examination of the channeled text titled The Urantia Book . After looking into the subject of Urantia and Gnosticism intricately, I believe that the Urantia Papers form a guide book to the Aquarian Age. One hint being that the Urantia Book presents a scientific, evolutionary, and planetary context for human life thereby appealing to the modern minds of post-Enlightenment thinking well positioned for the technological accelerationism of the Age of Aquarius. Another hint being that Urantia means "(y)our place in the heavens'' derived from the Greek Uranos (meaning heavenly) which is also the origin name for the planet Uranus. Which happens to be the ruling planet of the astrological sign of Aquarius. It seems to signify that when Uranus rules fully over the Age of Aquarius the planet itself will lend its name to the Heavenly Ice Giant and Master of the Winds.  The Aquarian Age that we are ...

Situationism calls attention to the priority of real life, real live activity, which continually experiments and corrects itself, instead of just constantly reiterating a few supposedly eternal truths like the ideologies of Trotskyism, Leninism, or Maoism. Static ideologies, however true they may be, tend, like everything else in capitalist society, to rigidify and become fetishised, just one more thing to passively consume. Partly as a result of this, Situationist ideas are notoriously difficult to explain, and open to a wide degree of interpretation. However, a few facts can be stated. Most introductions to the Situationists focus on their cultural ideas, particularly in relation to detournement (subverting elements of popular culture) but the roots of Situationist ideas are in Marxism. Libertarian Marxism, closer to anarchism than authoritarian strands of traditional Marxism, with the central idea that workers are systematically exploited in capitali...