Thesis and Anti-Thesis

The idea beyond this dialetic is simple, presenting the thesis of rational thought versus the rather irrational world.

Rational: Human created objects, therefore predictable and fully dominatable by humans.

Irrational: Natural and beyond human dominance.

Goals of Theory

• Connect 'irrational' desires with the way people act
• Explain family farms, burn barrels, Marx's concept of the idiocy of rural life, and other activities unneccessary in contemporary society
• Criticize capitalism, cities, formal methods of social control
• Force people to think about psychological aspects, phemonology, the environment around them (asethetics and biology), and social interactions
• Reflect the largely irrational and senseless world around us
• Consider the full picture
• Criticize Marxism for it's desire for a more rational, more controlled society that continues to destroy our world around us.
• Not become too preachy or use words in a neologic sense that others are unable to understand
• Explain what freedom is and how it exists in society

Notions of Freedom

Presents irrationality as a natural thing, and that a natural world free from human dominace is a free one. Suggests that if we respect our natural world and humankind as a whole, we will become more free as individuals. If we change our actions to be more compatible and less dominating of this world, we will become better individuals.

See Also...

Another explanation of this theory can be found in Criticizing Technological Rationality. This theory takes Weber and Marxist notions, and places them on their heads. Reading both of their works might also be of use.