RE: What Are The Advantages of Anarchy (Serious Answers Only Please)?
Cool post mindhunter, I like how you open up the debate and invite space for thought. I personally however don't so much see the problem as the "type" of structure or 'non-structure' we live in as a society/species but more what that structure is based on. The real question from my perspective would be "what are the principles we live by?", and this is a question not just pertaining to our global systems of government but more importantly to the individual. Are we as individuals on a personal level living as examples of the kind of love, compassion, support, understanding and care we'd like to see in the world around us? In more ways than we know, the world around us is a reflection of our inner "truth", which in humanity's case is a truth of competitiveness, greed, possessiveness, fear and anger existing on those deep unconscious levels of ourselves. A solution to how our reality exists today is thus not so much about creating change on an external level but more so creating it on an internal level first, to as an individual on all levels of ourselves (our cells) live and stand as a living example of the change we want to see in the world.
@kimamourette - internal change is good like you say, but not the silver bullet as 100% of everyone can't be the Dalai Lama. Some kind of yin/yang balance must exist where murder still exists to allow contrast in life. Only then do we know the true value of turning inwards. We must embrace both our light and dark natures. There must always be balance in everything :)
The idea of balance can be used as a way to keep this world as it is and keep ourselves from changing those things that we have the ability to change, specifically if "balance" is defined by polarity (such as the idea that for "love" or "peace" to exist, "hate" and "war" must also exist). I am definitely not implying anyone should try to become like the Dalai Lama. If anything from my perspective, the Dalai Lama, similar to figures like Buddha or Jesus, exist to create the perception that real purity is in fact unattainable for us "normal people" and that we should not even try to change. I don't define "internal change" as in achieving some great idea of enlightenment, but more to change that which we know we have the ability to change in ways which we know is best.
“Hating” the dark natured humans, or hating the light natured humans, is the root cause of negativity – it’s the “hate” that’s negative. The natures by themselves are pure, and required for a balance in physical experience :)
I am looking more at things on the level of the individual, not so much as an observer of the "whole". On the level of the individual, that "dark nature" isn't necessarily "who" that person is, but is more who and how they've become due to certain experiences they've went through in their life. To consider them part of a balance that needs to be maintained would from my perspective be to accept that they will be our "martyrs", allowing the rest of us to be on the good/positive end of the polarity, while what they really need is support to overcome their "preprogrammed" dark nature.
Agreed @kimamourette! This was an interesting little rabbit hole wasn't it :)
Lol yes, thank you for being open to discussion!
Always @kimamourette! :)