How can I explain myself to you?

Yes I'm an anarchist but ...

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As I spoke about in my last post I would class myself as an anarchist. Today is about how I communicate this to those around me. I will be honest I am not as open about this way of thinking as I would like to be. This is purely from a worry of judgment, which I know I should not allow to get to me but at work this could have repercussions. You might say I should not be working in a place that would frown on me for my views but this is the reality of todays society!

Most friends either think I'm off the wall, agree to an extent and others completely agree. As for my family I don't necessarily use the word 'Anarchist' but make my views clear. The parents kind of see my viewpoint and agree on a small level but unfortunately my sisters are complete statist to the extent they don't even agree banks are deliberately trying to create more debt and think I'm a 'conspiracy theorist ' for mentioning it. They keep telling i'll grow out of it. My brothers are there, although they live their lives and choose to ignore the problems.

When I do say i'm an anarchist I do feel obliged to say "but proper anarchy not the propaganda driven version where there is violence and chaos". But this feels like I am explaining myself when in reality I am trying to portray the truth; however i'm not sure it comes across this way.

How do you explain?

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In this day and age when society if breaking down it is easier to explain the ethos behind anarchy for sure. The average Joe sees that the country / world is rapidly going down hill for what ever reason. However many still think a selection where we choose another puppet will solve all the problems.

Too explain to a lot of my friends and some colleagues I went down the bank route. Explaining about the debt and how high street banks can only exist by creating debt. This generally is my assessment if you like to see how awake people are. If they get this then I will move onto crypto and explain the difference between law and acts etc. What I sometimes struggle with is the solutions, many people agree with the problems but are of the opinion we can't change it so just have to conform!

In response to the "we can't change things" conformity line I give the anarchy solution. Then you open the can of worms "what chaos!" We have the discussion about how anarchy is peaceful and does not involve the violence that the propaganda media feeds the masses. The conversation normally goes onto the "But who will run the country?" type. The reply to this is "well the government is basically a middle man who take our money and pays a private company, more then likely connected to them in someway to do the job". Generally this gets a raised eyebrow or two then often a cog or two start clicking. From here I can then build and talk about controlling people; if there was no government or laws do you really think everyone would go wild and chaos would reign? No is the answer, from most but some fear this. I bring in the example "ok ok look at it this way if I told you murder was no longer a crime would you go out and hack to death as many people as you could?" "Well no i'm not evil" is the jist of most peoples answer. The sadistic person might reply they'd give it a go (says a lot about some of my friends, haha). After this point I then point out some people would but surely these are the people who do it anyway and currently end up in jail; point being a law is not stopping those with no morals.

Then I come unstuck...

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After a lengthy conversation with my wonderful lady friend she saw the benefits and my point; but what about education? Now this stumped me obviously I disagree with the current education system (that's another post), but how would it work? I guess kids would learn by being shown by parents or the community. I do agree education is essential; the right education of course. But what is the right education? One that fits the child's skills, learning style and interests! How do we tackle this one I mean I would say community teaching for those this fits or people just pay private like everything else. Her response and a good one was that of how do the stop the school having an agenda and selecting and rejecting pupils? Also schools who have the most income will afford better resource and poorer areas will not have the resources to provide a good education (I'm not getting into content on this post). A valid point now with policing (protection) and most other services you just go to an alternative but schooling seems a tricky one to address to me. I don't this there would be a selection of affordable schools to choose. Then I come unstuck!

The next stage...

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To me anarchy is the clear way forward, obviously it won't happen over night and there will be teething problems. I need to have a better resource for my explanations before I can successfully convince the masses. There are certain scenarios where I can't provide a good enough argument currently. Added to this is the words I use; maybe anarchist as a description has been too tainted but the propaganda media to use in this situation? I sometimes use the word agorism introduced to me by @dbroze and this is a philosophy I follow and try to live my life by. Personally I think this is the best approach by changing the way you live will in turn influence people around you by example. I try and do this where I can, people see the benefit to the way I live without having to be explained the thinking and ethos behind these actions. To be honest I don't like labels.

Seeing myself as a communicator I need to look at my approach moving forward. Not going into deep maybe and directing people to posts and videos containing in depth explanations. Also pointing out the inadequacies of the current system and directing to alternatives such as from Facebook to Steemit!

In conclusion we all have our role in assisting the human consciousness to change, sometimes I try and go above my abilities. So I need to direct to the resources that are there in the community to explain myself. We con only do this together as a community 😁