#consentient

Consentient [kən-SEN-shənt]Part of speech: adjectiveOrigin: Latin, 17th century1. Of the same opinion in a matter; in agreement.Examples of consentient in a sentence“We pitched the idea of a new hedge to our neighbors, and they were consentient.”“All passengers on the boat were consentient, so we decided to stop first at the barrier island before sailing to our final destination.”

adj. agreeing; in accord

Consonant; congruent; agreeing: as, consentient testimony.

Endowed with consentience; of the nature of consentience: as,consentient animals; consentient activities.

Who are the Unterrified?

There are people in this world who care not for what they are compelled to care for. We suspect that they are more numerous than they appear. Muted by the gaudy displays of daily civilization they think thoughts outside of realms that others would ever consider. Daily life is the land of the robot, conditioned by the demands of automated structures. Clock in, clock out, the tyranny of work. Days,…

I was listening to an episode of John Zerzan’s Anarchy Radio this afternoon, in which Zerzan and Bellamy, a man I’d never previously hear of, were discussing the relative merits of the labels ‘anti-left anarchism’ and ‘post-left anarchism’.

It occurred to me that my own view was that it doesn’t matter what you call a philosophical standpoint that rejects civilisation, patriarchy, and heteronomy.…

Please, teach your child to think

Take the disgust and horror you feel watching this video and multiply it by several orders of magnitude: that’s how you ought to feel about yourself if you don’t teach your children to think, and to know that violence is ALWAYS wrong, and that the men behind the ‘governments’ and ‘corporations’ are the principal perpetrators of organised violence in our time.

[The first part of this essay set out the major conflicts in the permaculture movement and highlighted the key divide between those who want mainly to profit from what they already have, and those who want ethical and social justice for the wider…

In his landmark post calling for consistent culture, Entito Sovrano laid out several features of what a philosophically social paradigm would look like.

After identifying violence and heteronomy as the main way by which reasonable debate on any given…

A critique of capitalism, the philosophy of Stefan Molyneux,  and the business model of Freedomain Radio

[full PDF version, including footnotes, available for download here]

There have traditionally been two avenues by which an individual can rise to…