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William Schnack is a free thinking mutualist and a truth-seeking pantheist who writes about topics such as cosmology, biology, history, and social philosophy with an emphasis on the emerging capacity for humans to engage with one another voluntarily, consensually, and reciprocally. He considers his views to be non-political and Far Center, taking insight from the Far Left, the Far Right, and everything in between. That is, after all, the very nature of a truth-seeking free thinker.
Schnack has authored five books and a board game, all of which have been released with a Creative Commons license, being mostly free cultural works. Aside from this, William has been a drummer in hardcore punk rock bands and a part-time homesteader, otherwise working regular wage jobs at a vegan restaurant, a Vietnamese sandwich shop, a consumer-owned health food co-op, and a producer-owned urban farming co-op. He eats a majority-vegan diet and lives a near-vegan lifestyle, having had been fully vegan for 10 years but having since taken up raising his own egg-laying fowl and dairy animals, eating lacto-ovo sourced from his own livestock raised on his own smallhold. He continues to boycott the commercial meat, egg, and dairy industry, believing veganism to be the appropriate choice where ecology does not demand otherwise, such as in urban environments.
What is Ambiarchy?
Ambiarchy describes the symbiotic mutualism between anarchists and non-anarchists, and their resulting institutions, which can be equally and simultaneously regarded as models of good government and of anarchy de jure. It is a panarchy synarchically-led by anarchists; paleomutualism for the postmodern condition.
Ambiarchy is established upon the metaphysical premise of Ambitheism
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This blog uses the concept of anarchy. Anarchy, as used in this blog, does not refer to a condition of disorder, chaos, or disunity. Instead, anarchy refers to a condition of order, structure, and unity without the presence of a ruler, someone or a group of someones who establish(es) rules that others must follow without those others’ prior consent having been given. This is a colloquially uncommon definition, though many of the other definitions used on the site are also different from their colloquial one, while still more are in fact colloquial. This provides an example of the care that the reader should take in the interpretation of the words used on this site: a great deal of it. All definitions are those of the author and are to be construed in a manner appropriate to the context of the information on the rest of the blog.
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The author is a lifelong learner, who is perpetually continuing his education socially by engaging in conversation with other lifelong learners. The author’s education is not and never will be considered finalized.
The author is a self-educated autodidact. The author’s education is not in any way formal, the author having no degrees or certificates (excepting a GED and a Permaculture Teacher Certificate). The author is a lay learner, lay philosopher, and lay researcher.
The informational content of this blog is cross-disciplinary in nature. The cross-disciplinary nature of this content naturally impedes the author as a specialist in the various fields from which the information is derived. This being the case, the informational content is abstract and general in nature, and much of it represents the half-baked ideas of the author, the details having not been worked out.
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Please Keep an Open Mind and be Polite
While here, I ask that you maintain the proper etiquette of a free and critically-thinking truth seeker. This can be achieved by following this sequence:
- Actively Listen – Read, watch, or listen with the intentions of being able to paraphrase what has been said. This helps to ensure that what has been said is well understood, enough that one may repeat it.
- Suspend Judgment – Before criticizing or dismissing, grasp what is being said in its own context, and what is meant by the speaker. Don’t look immediately for flaws, but focus on comprehending what is being said and what the intentions of the speaker are.
- Critically Think – Consider what has been said, and whether or not it is in line with those things understood to be more fundamental. If so, decide where the adjustment should be made to your beliefs, whether the thing is truly fundamental or not, and if the other thing is right or wrong because of it.
- Constructively Criticize – If you think there is something wrong, criticize with the intentions to be constructive, and offer an alternative to the position you are criticizing. Ask yourself if you are fairly applying your criticism, and if it would also be true if used against you.
- Nonviolently Communicate – Communicate in manners that are not aggressive or attacking, but which are open, polite, and considerate.
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Mutualism, Emergence, and the Right of Increase
Difficulty Mutualism can be understood to be distinct from both capitalism and communism, while maintaining elements of each. Mutualism’s most-celebrated founder, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, was interested in the manner in which theses and antitheses synthesize, and in which antinomies may … Continue reading
Thoughts on History and the State
Difficulty The geo-mutualist panarchist interpretation of history is important for its theory of progress. Rather than, as many anarchists, holding a defeatist and determinist attitude toward history, geo-mutualist panarchists embrace the changes in history, and seek to understand them, … Continue reading
The Philosophy and Origins of Geo-Mutualist Panarchism
Difficulty THREE WISE MEN Geo-mutualist panarchism is a complex political and economic philosophy that combines the solutions of three radical libertarian social viewpoints: Georgism, Mutualism, and Panarchism. In order to fully grasp geo-mutualist panarchism, we must look to the … Continue reading
Geo-Mutualist Panarchism: A Synopsis
Difficulty The vision I propose for society is called “geo-mutualist panarchism.” This view is a combination of the mutualism of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the classical liberalism of Henry George, and the panarchism of Paul Emile de Puydt, supplemented with libertarian … Continue reading
Cost, Aggression, and Access to the Land
Difficulty This Text Can Be Found in the Book, The Evolution of Consent: Collected Essays (Vol. I) Introduction In this essay, I intend on demonstrating the complementarity between the cost-principle (as used by mutualists), rent-sharing (as displayed by the … Continue reading
On Mutualism & Interest on Capital
Difficulty This Text Can Be Found in the Book, The Evolution of Consent: Collected Essays (Vol. I) Much of the conflict between mutualism and other schools of economics seems to be based on terminology. Mutualists lack the terminology to … Continue reading
Interest & Premium: A Geo-Mutualist Synthesis
Difficulty This Text Can Be Found in the Book, The Evolution of Consent: Collected Essays (Vol. I) Introduction Two beautifully libertarian and populist philosophies, Georgism and mutualism, should not find themselves at such odds with one another, and, … Continue reading
The Proper Rate of Money
Difficulty This Text Can Be Found in the Book, The Evolution of Consent: Collected Essays (Vol. I) Introduction What is The Proper Rate of Money? Money has always carried with it a price of some sort. When one is … Continue reading
Mutual Credit: Its Function and Purpose
Difficulty This Text Can Be Found in the Book, The Evolution of Consent: Collected Essays (Vol. I) This was composed for a speech given to the People’s Arcane School on May 4, 2013 in Fort Worth, Texas. ____________________________________ The … Continue reading
The Mutualist Cost-Principle
Difficulty This Text Can Be Found in the Book, The Evolution of Consent: Collected Essays (Vol. I) This was composed for a speech given to the UNT Students for Liberty on October 4, 2012 in Denton, Texas. _______________________________________ Introduction … Continue reading
Welfare, Minus the State
Difficulty This Text Can Be Found in the Book, The Evolution of Consent: Collected Essays (Vol. I) Introduction Upon learning about anarchism for the first time, many questions pop into the head of the initiate; questions about law, money, … Continue reading
Anarchy, de Facto and de Jure
Difficulty This Text Can Be Found in the Book, The Evolution of Consent: Collected Essays (Vol. I) Those animals which are incapable of making binding agreements with one another not to inflict nor suffer harm are without either justice … Continue reading
Government and its “Solution”
Difficulty This Text Can Be Found in the Book, The Evolution of Consent: Collected Essays (Vol. I) As soon as we look for “solutions”— being the end of conflict—, rather than real solutions— being the end of the cause … Continue reading
Information and the Dissolution of Authority
Difficulty This Text Can Be Found in the Book, The Evolution of Consent: Collected Essays (Vol. I) I was recently reading a study— published by The Royal Society B, on behalf of John R.G. Dyer, Anders Johansson, Dirk … Continue reading
Credit, Collateral, and Spot-Pricing
Difficulty This Text Can Be Found in the Book, The Evolution of Consent: Collected Essays (Vol. I) If you are unfamiliar with mutual credit, please see my article, “Mutual Credit: Its Function and Purpose,” for an introduction. ____________________________________ Credit … Continue reading
Two Incentives for Cooperation
Difficulty This Text Can Be Found in the Book, The Evolution of Consent: Collected Essays (Vol. I) This was composed for a speech given to the People’s Arcane School on November 25, 2012 in Fort Worth, Texas. ____________________________________ … Continue reading