William Schnack's Ambiarchy Blog

Difficulty     An Ambiarchy is confederalist, consent-oriented, and voluntary. It is anarchist, panarchist, and voluntaryist. It is mutualist, Georgist, and distributist. It is communalist, agorist, syndicalist, and platformist. It is meritocratic, democratic, republican, constitutional, and parliamentary. It is Austrian, Marxist, monetarist, neo-Keynesian, corporatist, and chartalist. It is folkish, traditional, conservative, liberal, progressive, radical, and revolutionary. Among other things. Let’s have a look. An Ambiarchy is a voluntary confederation of various self-governing collectivities. These can range from private communities to communes and beyond. The law system of Ambiarchy rests upon a recognition of the sacred Law of the Jungle and its associated Spinoza-style natural rights. The Ambiarchy is not a nanny-state, but an association of mutual aid. As such, Jungle Law is forever preserved and grandfathered as an option for members of the Ambiarchy. But more formally and actively, the system of Ambiarchist law is called Henocentric Law. It has elements (more…)

Difficulty     The metaphysical premise of Ambitheism poses the existence of an eternal Monad. This Monad can be understood in secular terms, as the Universe, multiverse, Omniverse, or related concepts, or it can be understood in religious or spiritual terms, as one of the many names of God. To the Ambitheist, it’s unimportant what we call it, because human terms and concepts will never sufficiently describe it, though we can approximate it the best we can from our various angles. The Ambitheist understands the Monad to ultimately be One, in the manner of monism, but to express itself in nested pairs of duality. This makes Ambitheism a rendition of substance, qualified, or dialectical monism, with an associated property or attribute dualism. Ambitheists hold that everything is reducible firstly to attributes or properties of, and finally to, a single Substance. Attributes come in pairs, such as ideas and matter. These almost (more…)

Difficulty     Ambiarchy and Perfection Ambiarchy starts with perfection. That is, the political economy of Ambiarchy rests upon and exists within the larger perfection of the Universe, as described in Ambitheism. According to Ambitheism– the metaphysical premise of Ambiarchy–, the Universe is in a constant state of perfection, a state which always includes both the actual moment and the potential for the next. Perfection here is not intended to mean subjectively perfect, or “good”, but “without flaw.” Everything is as it should be, always. Including your angst, anger, dissatisfaction, etc. That is perfect, too. The Universe is perfect because it is flawless. What I mean by this is that everything in the past, and all hopes for the future, have so far resulted in the present moment, and it could be no other way than it is now, because of the manner in which it came to be. There is (more…)

Difficulty     Government Inalienable Rights – One cannot transfer legal ownership of one’s self Free Contract – Unhindered right to enter into contracts Meritocratic Leadership – Demonstrated ability Consensus Democracy – Agreement of the people, with principle objections Weighted Voting – Deferment by consensus to a weighted vote, when principled objections are not raised Range Voting – Rating proposals along a scale Confederation – Voluntary federalism Subsidiarity – Localized decisions Henocentric Law – Cellular, locally-overlapping, but regionally-federated jurisdictions Common Law Courts – Criminal penalties reserved for officials Economy Land Value Tax – Community capture of economic rent Basic Income – Citizen’s dividend Mutual Credit – Interest-free currency Voluntary Exchange – Free markets Market Competition – Free pricing Solidarity Economy – Cooperatives, mutuals, etc. Worker Self-Management – Personal space at work Mutual Healthcare – Voluntary risk-pooling Culture Sex Compatibilism – Different choices, equal rights Gender Tolerance – Non-binary welcome Racial Egalitarianism (more…)

Difficulty     The basis of Ambiarchist philosophy is the metaphysics of Ambitheism, which suggests that the material-physical world is governed by entropic processes, while spiritual-psychical processes are syntropic in nature. In other words, while the natural material world of dead things tends to external disorder, the thoughts and willpower of life tends toward internal order. The metaphysics of Ambitheism are used to describe a Universe which is possible of giving rise to both government and anarchy. These must be governed by the same laws, as they are housed under the same roof, and yet they appear so different to one another. Ambitheism provides an explanation as to why anarchy de facto was displaced by states, and that reason is that biological organisms tend evermore toward order. This is not to suggest that an ordered anarchy is impossible— and in fact Ambiarchy is intended to pass for such an anarchy if (more…)

Difficulty     I am engaging the project for ambiarchy in an attempt toward both personal growth and social effectiveness. As I proceed, I want to be clear that there is nothing inherent in the project of anarchism, to which I have hitherto attached myself, which pushes me away from it. Rather, it is the followers of the doctrines, with whom I cannot seem to see eye to eye, or mobilize to action, despite my attempts in good spirit. This gives me cause to rebrand an organization-focused (pl)anarchism of my particular variety as something other than anarchism. I am changing my rhetoric, but the vision remains the same, when accounting for a usual rate of improvement. As I have championed anarchism already, however, and in my never ending quest to be complete, I have of recent been reading more widely from the statist traditions, and have been considering their positions as (more…)

Difficulty     At evolutionofconsent.com, I developed the precursor to Ambiarchy, geo-mutualist panarchism. Here are seven of the reasons I made the switch. 1. Simplicity. I have been promoting my philosophy under “geo-mutualist panarchism,” which is quite a mouthful. Ambiarchy is much simpler. 2. Non-polarizing. Ambiarchy is not a widely used word, and so it misses the repeated assumptions behind a word like “anarchy” or “panarchy.” 3. Mysterious. Its meaning is not readily apparent, and so must be looked into firsthand. Because of its obscurity, it is more difficult to establish false assumptions upon. 4. Open. When I started calling my project “geo-mutualist panarchism” I was choosing between what I considered to be the three main players of my model, but there are actually many more influences than Georgism, mutualism, and panarchy. Ambiarchy allows in its ambiguity to draw from many sources. 5. Definite. As I am the originator, I can (more…)

Difficulty     Ambiarchy is the resolution that your good government can look and feel just like my anarchy does, and that my anarchy can look and feel just like your good government. I suggest it is therefore better to address the substance of our positions and their compatibility, than to get caught up in semantic disagreements. As it goes, an organization that was functional and not conflictarian– an ambiarchy– could equally be called an anarchy de jure or a good government, without contradiction, depending on the syntax. Ambiarchists recognize that language is not entirely objective, and present Ambiarchy to signify both anarchy de jure and good government equally, as interchangeable terms in a new thought paradigm with a new syntax. That is, Ambiarchy allows a translation between the two syntaxes. How could Ambiarchy actually be both a good government and an anarchy de jure? The debate between statists and libertarians (more…)