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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.
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- 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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Category Archives: Metaphysics
On Retrocausality and Idealism in Neutral Monism
Difficulty Retrocausality is the concept of causes placed in a timeframe of the future that have an effect in the timeframe of the present. That is, wherein the future affects the present. Idealism is the view that ideas, often … Continue reading →
Cognition, Conscience, and Consciousness Briefly Delineated
Difficulty Cognition is input of facts or data into the mind by the brain, and conscience is the output of values or mores into the brain by the mind, while consciousness itself is pure awareness. That is, consciousness only … Continue reading →
Positive, Negative, and Equal Liberties and Rights
Difficulty When I speak of rights, I am generally speaking of recognized liberties. Liberties are natural freedoms, whereas rights are protected freedoms.[1] Our liberties are unrestrained, excepting for our endowments and environments. That is, our liberties are our capacities. … Continue reading →
A Quick Lesson on Dimensions and Eternalism
Difficulty 1 . A simple point, shown as the shadow of a one-dimensional line segment, is dimensionless. The line segment, however, extending between two points gives us a single dimension. A line segment, shown as the shadow of a … Continue reading →
Ambiarchy: Just a Matter of Time
Difficulty Ambiarchy answers the question of why we live in a Universe that seems to contradict itself. In particular, how a single, shared Universe can produce various opposing results. This interests the Ambiarchist, because the Ambiarchist is interested in … Continue reading →
Anarchy and Pantheism, Proudhon and Spinoza
Difficulty (This post is a little dated and has been transferred from another site. Since writing it the connection between Proudhon and Spinoza has been much more solidified through learning about the history of pre-Proudhonian mutualism and its relationship … Continue reading →
Henocentrism and the Grayscale of Anarchism
Difficulty Mutualism and Anarchism without Adjectives/Hyphens Mutualism is undeniably a variety of anarchism, as classical anarchism finds its home in the philosophy of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the first to describe himself as such. The same cannot be said of capitalism … Continue reading →
The Dialectical Thought of Mutualism
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 27, 2011 in Denton, Texas. ____________________________________ Mutualism … Continue reading →
Spiraling into Our Future: An Inquiry into the Dialectical Trajectory from the Real to the Ideal
Difficulty This Text Can Be Found in the Book, The Evolution of Consent: Collected Essays (Vol. I) Spiraling Through Time Time is something which has eluded humanity for a great while, but is it possible to understand time? While … Continue reading →
The Role of Metaphysics in Socio-Political Revolution
Difficulty This Text Can Be Found in the Book, The Evolution of Consent: Collected Essays (Vol. I) This piece is dedicated generally to The People’s Arcane School, and specifically to my friend and teacher, Mercurious Magus, without whom I’d … Continue reading →
The Duality of Perspective and the Spectrum of Reason
Difficulty This Text Can Be Found in the Book, The Evolution of Consent: Collected Essays (Vol. I) Introduction The world seems to be a very divided place. Duality seems to be a common aspect of our Universe. We will … Continue reading →
Class Antagonism and its Metaphysical Implications
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 January 6, 2013 in Fort Worth, Texas. ____________________________________ Two … Continue reading →
God, Bees, and the Choices We Make
Difficulty This Text Can Be Found in the Book, The Evolution of Consent: Collected Essays (Vol. I) God and the Bees I’ve learned so much about existence just from having a garden. No, not just from the books I’ve … Continue reading →
The Journey of Realization: The Metaphysics of Dualist Pantheism
Difficulty This Text Can Be Found in the Book, The Evolution of Consent: Collected Essays (Vol. I) This was originally composed for a speech given to the People’s Arcane School on November 4, 2012 in Fort Worth, Texas. ____________________________________ … Continue reading →
Ideological Progressions in the Monad
Difficulty Introduction It is important to understand the manner in which ideologies develop and relate to one another and the Universe in which they exist. In order to establish such an understanding, we will be looking into meta-ideology. We … Continue reading →
The Intersection of Dualist Pantheism and Geo-Mutualist Panarchism
Difficulty Introduction The two philosophies explored in my work most include dualist pantheism and geo-mutualist panarchism. Dualist pantheism, of course, is a metaphysical position, while geo-mutual panarchism is a position relating to political economy. This essay will explore the … Continue reading →
The Eternally Perfect and Absolutely Necessary ALL
Difficulty Introduction My beliefs are often found to be controversial. Not the least controversial of my ideas, are my beliefs that the Universe— The All— is eternal, necessary, perfect, and absolute. Being eternal, the Universe spans all of time, from … Continue reading →
On Truth and Economy: Subjectivity, Objectivity, Absoluteness, Wrongness, and Their Economic Applications
Difficulty Introduction Truth is that information which corresponds to the way things are. One can believe something which is not so, and which is false, or one can believe something which is so. Those beliefs which are so are true, … Continue reading →
Why Panarchists Should Embrace Dualist Pantheism (With Seven Key Reasons)
Difficulty For more information on dualist pantheism, see the two opening essays of my book, “The Evolution of Consent: Collected Essays,” which are entitled “The Journey of Realization: An Introduction to Dualist Pantheism,” and “The Duality of Perspective and the … Continue reading →
The Principle of Fair Regard
Difficulty Introduction The non-aggression principle is a long-standing staple among libertarians of many varieties, especially among the right, such as voluntaryists, but also among some in the center, such as mutualists and libertarian Georgists. In this short little essay, … Continue reading →