While the ideas and concepts advocated by permaculture hold promise in terms of striving toward ecologically-geared food sovereignty, there are some issues with the polarizing ways in which its proponents often portray it. Oftentimes, permaculture is presented by counterposing it to industrial agriculture. The staggering socioecological horrors of statist industrial agriculture should not be understated; […]
Month: January 2023
False Freedom: The Rhetoric of Tyrants
Freedom-pretenders like to believe that freedom can exist in a vacuum, that their shallow and inconsistent definition of freedom is true and right. Their conception of freedom is dependent on a static, idealized vision of society which entails the unfreedom of Others. This should leave no doubt in anyone’s mind that they betray the cause […]
Anarchism and Agency-Consequentialism: Partners in Liberation
Agency-consequentialism is a philosophical ethical framework developed by anarchist writer and activist William Gillis. It is a variant of consequentialism, a type of moral theory that holds that the rightness or wrongness of an action should be judged based on its consequences. Agency-consequentialism differs from traditional forms of consequentialism in that it places a particular […]