AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.
Rationalism eschews specific goals and goods. They are relegated to the word "values" or "utility"; the focus of attention is on the powerful and fully general machinery of goal-satisfaction, for both human and computational agents.
The logic of Passion leads to the conclusion that all "states" are impossible, all "orders" illusory, except those of desire. No being, only becoming—hence the only viable government is that of love, or "attraction." Civilization merely hides from itself—behind a thin static scrim of rationality—the truth that only desire creates values . And so the values of Civilization are based on the denial of desire.