The Limits of Knowing & The Ungoverned Free

If rationalism is right, then fear is just bad logic—something to be reasoned away, an error to be corrected. But that’s a lie. Emotions are real, and they are not mistakes. Feeling anxious before an exam isn’t a failure of reason; it’s proof that you care. It’s evidence of meaning, of investment, of connection.

If empiricism is right, then fear is just a failure to predict danger. But that, too, is a lie. No matter how much we prepare, the unknown will always exist. The most calculated plans unravel. The most meticulous safety nets fail. Because life is not a controlled experiment. It is wild, fluid, unpredictable.

Both of these epistemologies—rationalism and empiricism—are rooted in empire’s obsession with certainty. They try to collapse the mystery of being human into something that can be known or controlled. But to be human is to be vulnerable—to feel, to care, to not know everything and to still move forward anyway.

That’s why Enby Epistemology and Mixtape Methodology offer a way o…