Who in this forum has ever espoused anarchy?
Vi
guilty as charged, but isn't the concept of the people governing themselves the goal of the spiritual and ethical growth of the human race? while there are instances where governmental interference may seem necessary, there is no reason that the cause of freedom should be totally abandoned just because slavery may seem easier or safer. allowing representatives to interpret the needs and desires of the people may be a step in the right direction, but it is still allowing the few to control the fate of the many and it is usually leads to tyranny. at times it may be a gentle tyranny, but a tyranny none the less.
only when the people themselves are allowed to decide their own direction will their freedom be complete. of course there will be mistakes made and injustices committed. change is seldom easy and freedom has a price, but isn't it better that those errors be made by those who must endure their outcome? under the domination of governmental bureaucracies such missteps are still made, but those acts are committed by a ruling class distanced from the masses and relatively unaffected by their mistakes while the people they represent must cope with their short-sighted policies.
It might be a little harder to hoard your stuff with no cops, no military and no government bodies, Just a thought, yeah Anarchy forever, Hoo-Hoo.
isn't it odd that, though we rail against the police state mentality of law enforcement, the excesses of the military and the ineptitude of our leaders, we still cling to the illusion of safety they create? we have been shown time and again that government is totally incapable of protecting us, yet we still believe that bureaucrats are more capable of deciding our fates than we ourselves. even those who claim to have an abiding faith in the power of the people seem incapable of trusting them to do what is right without the heavy hand of big brother to keep them in line.
i would hope that by now we would have understood that it's not all about
hoarding our stuff. though stuff is nice, it's just things and there is so much more for us to concern ourselves with than mere items. the whole point of anarchy, it seems to me, is the freedom to take personal responsibility for your actions and allow others to do the same. i realize that the idea of folks taking responsibility for their own lives is not a popular concept with the nouveau-left, but it seems a necessary step if we are ever to become more than a race of masters and slaves.
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now i realize that i might have just written a bunch of what you might see as empty rhetoric. i suppose i could blame it on the fact that i woke up this morning, saw that i had nothing really pressing to do today, and proceeded to get blasted out of my little gourd. no, i won't take that route.
