Anarchy is a very popular concept in our modern world, especially on Steemit. But I'm not sure everyone mean the same when they pronounce or write that word. 

However, what everyone seems to agree on is that anarchy is the solution to all our problems: unemployment, illnesses, ward and especially... TAXES! I mean... The government is stealing half of our income... Booo... We want anarchy! Let's destroy governments and come back to feudal system where we pledge allegiance to a local warlord who will protect us against the next warlord, and forget all about education and health.

So, i guess it's my turn now to wade into the debate and to speak my word... Or more exactly, the word of G.K. Chesterton.

                            

G.K. CHESTERTON 

Gilbert Keith Chesterton is one of the most important English author of the XIXth century. He was quite a paradox. He converted to Catholicism, he was ferociously funny, wrote about anything, and wrote the stories of Father Brown, ones of the first detective stories ever to grace the shelves of the libraries. But above all, he was very witty and always had the knack to destroy any farfetched conceits.

His favourite book of mine is "The Man Who Was Thursday", which can be read as a thriller about a policeman infiltrating an anarchist society in London in order to prevent a terrorist attack. 

But this book is about more than thrills, and can be epitomized by the following quote :

“You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists”

(To put that into context, remember that at the junction of XIXth and XXth century, the Western World felt under attack by anarchists terrorists - culminating into the Bolshevik revolution).

Get it? We don't need anarchy because we already have it. 

THE AFFLUENZA SYNDROME IS EVIDENCE THAT WE LIVE IN ANARCHY

For example, remember that kid :

                

Ethan Couch is a Texan kid who killed four people while driving and drinking, in 2013. His case sent ripples around the case because his defense successfully argued that he was suffering from affluenza. Basically, he was born in a rich family and that just distorted his sense of common values and morale.

Well... Is that not anarchy pushed to its limit? 

Before, in order to avoid to be thrown in jail you had to bribe your way out. Now, it's a common knowledge that the more wealthy you are, the more incapable you are to function efficiently and morally in society. Society basically says with this judgment that you are a sociopath who has no understanding of the rules and it would be a waste of time to put you in jail.

You can commit whatever crime you want and blame it on the size of our bank accounts, as long as the said bank account boasts enough zeros of course. If you steal meat at the supermarket and try to argue that it was because you had to money to buy it, people will laugh at you. 

REBELS BUT NOT ANARCHISTS

To come back to Chesterton: "The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government."

Yes, we need decent government in order to protect us against the wealthy people. I said it. Let me repeat it: we need DECENT government. I don't mean we need MORE government.

But I'm not Chesterton. I have no idea how to get there. Chesterton either, and he had a great quote about the political system in vigour in his time : 

"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected."

Can we say it is still relevant ?