Total Anarchy
Anarchy is not lawless chaos – it is simply the absence of controlling rulers.
Think “no rulers”, not “no rules”. Natural law is the only valid law, regardless of which government claims authority over you.
There are some violent idiots who claim to be anarchists, but they are just using the word to hide behind their childish anger and ignorant greed. Don’t be fooled into believing that the government protects you from them. The abusive government protects its own supposed authority, not your life, liberty, and property.
John Hasnas, Professor of Law at Georgetown University, put it this way:
Anarchy refers to a society without a central political authority. But it is also used to refer to disorder or chaos. This constitutes a textbook example of Orwellian newspeak in which assigning the same name to two different concepts effectively narrows the range of thought. For if lack of government is identified with the lack of order, no one will ask whether lack of government actually results in a lack of order. And this uninquisitive mental attitude is absolutely essential to the case for the state. For if people were ever to seriously question whether government is really productive of order, popular support for government would almost instantly collapse.
I’m willing to bet that you really love anarchy. Don’t think so? How many of the following scenes of total anarchy do you happily participate in?
– Paying a neighborhood kid to mow your lawn
– Kids selling lemonade or washing cars or putting on a concert to raise funds for their cause
– Buying used furniture at a garage sale
– Reading whatever books you choose
– Your friend cutting your hair, whether you agree to pay them or not
– Enjoying the company of your friends without being forced to associate with anyone against your choosing
– Traveling freely from place to place
– Writing and sharing your thoughts and feelings without fear
– Building a deck or patio on your property to enjoy with your family and friends
– Attending a sporting event or other form of entertainment
– Worshiping according to your own conscience
– Singing or playing a song you like
– Keeping private information private
– Growing a garden
These simple activities (and infinitely more just like them) are those of an anarchist. (Notice the lack of taxes, regulation, building permits, licensing, child labor laws, immigration law, forced association, prohibition, censorship, surveillance, and minimum wage.)
In fact, I will go as far as to say that anarchy is involved in literally everything good in this world. You should not fear total freedom just because you have been raised to be comfortable in a cage.
I think anarchism is fine in theory, but in practice it runs into trouble. Many of the regulations and regulatory agencies we have now were enacted and created to respond to problems in society resulting from lack of regulation. The government wouldn't have the power to begin keeping the country together if citizens had no interests in being part of a country, in my opinion culture and the state are linked, the kind of state you live in affects its culture and the other way around. Governments have been a feature of all human societies of size. In real life, decentralized authority or lack of authority guts movements, see occupy wallstreet.
its all in how one would execute the theory
all one really needs to do to create an anarchy ran nation is to create a and keep a close eye on a temporary government to create a school system that makes the children understand morals and have a freedom to do what they want not what the government tall them too.
its simple doing it this way will give them a good opinion of education,and it will give them a good push and a strong will to dive right into topics and create a stronger will to learn with every subject discovered by the individual it will sky rocket into a intellectual culture in years
i wont lie this is very poorly put to gather, but i cant remember what all i had thought on this subject its late were i am
I appreciate that you have an opinion concerning this.
You say "many of the regulations and regulatory agencies we have now were enacted and created to respond to problems in society resulting from lack of regulation. " Could you cite examples of this? Your sentence in itself is a bit of circular logic.
Regardless some people will never understand true anarchy. The problems in society didnt result because of the lack of regulation, it happened because everyday peoples hands are tied by the rule of law. If someone comes to my town to frack and destabalize the region i have no say at all in the manner, and even if i act out or approach the company i can be arrested. In an anarchist society i could drive them out using all means at my disposal. Lack of regulation is laughable, give me anarchy and we will see peoples true reaction when they arent binded by the laws placed over them by men who just do their jobs and operate under a completely fictional moral highground.