in an age of universal dependency, self-sufficiency is a revolutionary act.
anarchy is not a lack of order. proper anarchy is the taking back our our own rights to determine our societal order from the bottom up.
it is the move to an emergent society rooted in voluntary affiliation and away from a dictatorial one.
why does anyone have any right to tell you who you can buy corn or t-shirts or legal advice from?
why does anyone have a right to tell you what liquor you may drink, weeds you may smoke, or pharmaceuticals you may seek treatment with?
and why on earth would you trust some distant bureaucrat to determine or serve such a right?
why would you seek to be dictated to like a child rather that live as an adult possessed of agency?
imagine a society where the right of individuals to produce food and goods and services and trade them with one another as they see fit is absolute and inalienable.
imagine no regulation save that which we chose to impose upon ourselves, voluntary accreditation instead of convoluted governmental permission, and reputation and information instead of credentialism and guild mandate.
then imagine a society where a child can be fined or arrested for the voluntary making of lemonade and the sale of it to willing neighbors.
“The girls' mother, Sandi Evans, said, "I think that's ridiculous. I think they're 7 and 8 and they're just trying to make money for their own cause."
Meanwhile, Police Chief Clyde Carter said Overton police are just following the law: "We have to follow by the state health guidelines. They have to have a permit if they're going to do the lemonade stands."
imagine the lesson this teaches our children.
imagine a society where health and legal advice is massively overpriced because the supply is constrained by guild systems that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to join.
imagine a society where regulations pushed by incumbents are designed to have costly compliance to stymie small business in order to protect oligopoly by disguising predation and rent seeking as safety.
this july 4th, ask some pointed questions about which one of those societies you live in.
ask some pointed questions about which one you WANT to live in.
ask yourself: “which of these is truly the land of the free and the home of the brave?”
This is mostly because history teaches mainly the left-wing take of anarchy - that we've seen a lot the last year (molotov cocktail style). The best phrase is, "you don't speak for me" and the rest is application from that. Glad to see it spreading. 90% of interactions would be Anarchist (or peaceful). Govt mostly adds bureaucracy to the process :)
I think the biggest problem with both Team Donkey and Team Elephant is that they both refuse to accept that giving people freedom means that sometimes that means you have to allow people to do something you don't like. It takes a huge amount of humility and a brutally honest assessment of human nature to say that your team indeed doesn't and can't possibly get everything right, and it's better for society as a whole to allow people to make most decisions for themselves.
This line of thinking will not win you any friends among the rich and powerful, because many of the rich and powerful have forgotten that it was this same freedom that brought them to the place they are today. Or perhaps because they remember this but want to keep all the power to themselves. Either way, it remains implicit that what matters the most for those at the top is power.
I imagine this insight into human nature and humble admission of the fallibility of power is why Benjamin Franklin was dubious of the longevity of the work of the founding fathers of the United States of America. When asked what sort of government they had just formed, his reply was, "A republic, if you can keep it!"
It is the people's responsibility, NOT the government's, to "keep" their republic. We are the lions. Stop asking the donkeys or the elephants to do a lion's work.
Anarchy is wonderful in theory, but breaks down when you're attacked. In Barcelona, during the Spanish civil war, the anarchists were doing fine until they had to elect the generals to lead them, and because it conflicted with their principles, that failed.
this is, indeed, always the issue. it works like a form of bounded equation: how can we maximize human agency, thriving, and liberty subject to the constraint that we must be sufficiently good at organizing and repelling violence to avoid being preyed upon and conquered by the neighbors?
if you don't get over that hurdle, you won't last long.
so, to be sure, absolute anarchic organization is prone to defeat by conquest, but we can surely push it MUCH further than current society. i struggle to imagine why repelling invaders would be compromised by free choice on pharmaceuticals and professional advice, a lack of regulations on commerce, or little girls selling lemonade.
this leads to something like the libertarian compromise.
Anarchy occurs when bad kitties don't realise what havoc they've caused by spreading a bad meme that CDC was putting a thumb on the scale of PCR ,comparing vaccinated to unvaccinated. Come on, El Gato, you know you misinterpreted the CDC advice to use PCR Ct <= 28 for selection of vaccine breakthrough cases to send for genomic sequencing, and which was not intended for comparing vaccinated to unvaccinated. Your bad meme is close to viral. Even good kitties make mistakes. I promise you a saucer of warm milk if you publish a retraction.
Ronald, have you ever asked yourself why CDC put a limit of <=28 cycles for the genomic analysis of +PCR tests? If they can't identify the genome beyond 28 cycles, what might that mean?
There is no problem for the CDC to set a more stringent PCR Ct, if the intention is to identify vaccine breakthrough variants, and not to compare case by case to unvaccinated. You don't have to identify all the variant cases, it's statistical sampling. You've gone too far to CDC conspiracy.
If CDC can't identify the genome beyond 28 cycles, what are the chances that the person is contagious? We were told that the PCR test was being used to detect who had active infection (which the test cannot do) to prevent the spread of the virus...not to determine who might have encountered and dealt with the virus weeks ago. By limiting the PCR cycle cutoff for breakthrough infections that are submitted for genomic analysis...CDC admitted the flaw. Most of the "case" data...and therefore death data...is rubbish. Apparently, Kary Mullis said anything beyond 20 cycles was not reliable. He also said the PCR test should not be used for diagnostic testing.
No question - which is why nature abhors absolutes. Pure anarchy is no different in the end than pure democracy - each is vulnerable to destruction by the mob - one externally and the other internal. As with everything in life, the key to optimal existence is in finding the right balance, the middle way as the Buddhists teach it. Having said that, by my sense of current events, our nation has swung far too much toward tyranny and could use a large dose of anarchy to correct what ails it. The issue, of course, is that corrections such as that are rarely measured and almost always overshoot the mark. By any estimation we have rough days ahead.
Oh I'm an anarchist all the way, regardless of the outcome of any war, so who needs generals? The winners of wars simply impose their version of tyranny.
Sorry, off topic, but anyone seen Billy G. lately? Been kind of missing on TeeVee of late. And funny how Warren Buffet exited stage right from BMGF last month, not long after Melinda exited stage left. You'd think they were like rats leaping from a sinking ship, or something, if they were rats and the BMGF were a sinking ship. Hey, wait a minute...
Yeah, I think he had two options: 1. fake a fainting spell during an interview and be wheeled to the hospital to be "diagnosed" with exhaustion and, upon further testing, a non-life threatening tumor on his pituitary gland that may have, could have, possibly contributed to, his thinking processes being compromised recently, and then resign and disappear to count his loot, or, 2. Fight it out on TeeVee. He chose 2, unwisely, and he will be thrown under the bus and that right soon.
“That government is best which governs least.”-Henry David Thoreau
That used to be a very American attitude.
I have never heard that take on anarchy before, but if this is anarchy, I will gladly become an anarchist.
This is mostly because history teaches mainly the left-wing take of anarchy - that we've seen a lot the last year (molotov cocktail style). The best phrase is, "you don't speak for me" and the rest is application from that. Glad to see it spreading. 90% of interactions would be Anarchist (or peaceful). Govt mostly adds bureaucracy to the process :)
The word anarchist has lost it's original intended meaning of "without government", and has come to mean disorder and chaos.
you and Michael Malice have converted me!
I think the biggest problem with both Team Donkey and Team Elephant is that they both refuse to accept that giving people freedom means that sometimes that means you have to allow people to do something you don't like. It takes a huge amount of humility and a brutally honest assessment of human nature to say that your team indeed doesn't and can't possibly get everything right, and it's better for society as a whole to allow people to make most decisions for themselves.
This line of thinking will not win you any friends among the rich and powerful, because many of the rich and powerful have forgotten that it was this same freedom that brought them to the place they are today. Or perhaps because they remember this but want to keep all the power to themselves. Either way, it remains implicit that what matters the most for those at the top is power.
I imagine this insight into human nature and humble admission of the fallibility of power is why Benjamin Franklin was dubious of the longevity of the work of the founding fathers of the United States of America. When asked what sort of government they had just formed, his reply was, "A republic, if you can keep it!"
It is the people's responsibility, NOT the government's, to "keep" their republic. We are the lions. Stop asking the donkeys or the elephants to do a lion's work.
I think it was GummiBear who recently said if you want to be left alone, you are now a right-wing extremist.
Nailed it.
So pleasing to find another anarchist on these Interwebs. Our tribe needs all the warriors it can find.
Anarchy is wonderful in theory, but breaks down when you're attacked. In Barcelona, during the Spanish civil war, the anarchists were doing fine until they had to elect the generals to lead them, and because it conflicted with their principles, that failed.
this is, indeed, always the issue. it works like a form of bounded equation: how can we maximize human agency, thriving, and liberty subject to the constraint that we must be sufficiently good at organizing and repelling violence to avoid being preyed upon and conquered by the neighbors?
if you don't get over that hurdle, you won't last long.
so, to be sure, absolute anarchic organization is prone to defeat by conquest, but we can surely push it MUCH further than current society. i struggle to imagine why repelling invaders would be compromised by free choice on pharmaceuticals and professional advice, a lack of regulations on commerce, or little girls selling lemonade.
this leads to something like the libertarian compromise.
but the same key tenets inform both.
Anarchy occurs when bad kitties don't realise what havoc they've caused by spreading a bad meme that CDC was putting a thumb on the scale of PCR ,comparing vaccinated to unvaccinated. Come on, El Gato, you know you misinterpreted the CDC advice to use PCR Ct <= 28 for selection of vaccine breakthrough cases to send for genomic sequencing, and which was not intended for comparing vaccinated to unvaccinated. Your bad meme is close to viral. Even good kitties make mistakes. I promise you a saucer of warm milk if you publish a retraction.
Ronald, have you ever asked yourself why CDC put a limit of <=28 cycles for the genomic analysis of +PCR tests? If they can't identify the genome beyond 28 cycles, what might that mean?
There is no problem for the CDC to set a more stringent PCR Ct, if the intention is to identify vaccine breakthrough variants, and not to compare case by case to unvaccinated. You don't have to identify all the variant cases, it's statistical sampling. You've gone too far to CDC conspiracy.
If CDC can't identify the genome beyond 28 cycles, what are the chances that the person is contagious? We were told that the PCR test was being used to detect who had active infection (which the test cannot do) to prevent the spread of the virus...not to determine who might have encountered and dealt with the virus weeks ago. By limiting the PCR cycle cutoff for breakthrough infections that are submitted for genomic analysis...CDC admitted the flaw. Most of the "case" data...and therefore death data...is rubbish. Apparently, Kary Mullis said anything beyond 20 cycles was not reliable. He also said the PCR test should not be used for diagnostic testing.
I'm not arguing that PCR is not a disaster. Please stick to the point of thumb on scale of vaccinated versus unvaccinated.
No question - which is why nature abhors absolutes. Pure anarchy is no different in the end than pure democracy - each is vulnerable to destruction by the mob - one externally and the other internal. As with everything in life, the key to optimal existence is in finding the right balance, the middle way as the Buddhists teach it. Having said that, by my sense of current events, our nation has swung far too much toward tyranny and could use a large dose of anarchy to correct what ails it. The issue, of course, is that corrections such as that are rarely measured and almost always overshoot the mark. By any estimation we have rough days ahead.
Oh I'm an anarchist all the way, regardless of the outcome of any war, so who needs generals? The winners of wars simply impose their version of tyranny.
Sorry, off topic, but anyone seen Billy G. lately? Been kind of missing on TeeVee of late. And funny how Warren Buffet exited stage right from BMGF last month, not long after Melinda exited stage left. You'd think they were like rats leaping from a sinking ship, or something, if they were rats and the BMGF were a sinking ship. Hey, wait a minute...
A while back, I proposed we dig a big hole and push them all in it.
Anthony is a bit scarce as well.
Yeah, I think he had two options: 1. fake a fainting spell during an interview and be wheeled to the hospital to be "diagnosed" with exhaustion and, upon further testing, a non-life threatening tumor on his pituitary gland that may have, could have, possibly contributed to, his thinking processes being compromised recently, and then resign and disappear to count his loot, or, 2. Fight it out on TeeVee. He chose 2, unwisely, and he will be thrown under the bus and that right soon.
What if the power center is not government?