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1LolaWalser
Mar 24, 2011, 11:50 pm

Why does it scare people?

2Makifat
Mar 25, 2011, 1:35 am

We live by control, or at least the illusion of it. When control is gone, there is only the abyss.

Or so some would have it.

3soniaandree
Mar 25, 2011, 7:13 am

Anarchy is where all the institutions have failed. In itself, it can be like a pressure release system before another institution is put in place.

4pgmcc
Mar 25, 2011, 7:35 am

I remember using the bathroom in a small bistro in a local university town. On the wall, in very neat block capitals, was the slogan,
"RESIST ALL AUTHORITY!"
It was written so neatly and regularly that I was tempted to add, "By Order".

5citygirl
Mar 25, 2011, 10:04 am

It's scary because people are untrustworthy, especially in mobs.

6tomcatMurr
Editado: Mar 25, 2011, 11:18 am

people have too much invested in the status quo
they cannot imagine another way
they don't want the responsibility of freedom
humanity is too selfish for true anarchy

take your pick.

7LolaWalser
Mar 25, 2011, 11:28 am

humanity is too selfish for true anarchy

I'd begin with this--it is also often proferred as the reason why socialism/communism are "impossible".

Errico Malatesta, an old-time Italian anarchist, starts off his manifesto by explaining that anarchy doesn't mean chaos. It isn't lawlessness and orgiastic blundering about (that's the vision of a Christian society at the End of the Days). But it builds on decentralisation and constant shifting of power.

8RickHarsch
Mar 25, 2011, 11:35 am

Everything I have ever feared rationally was a function of order. Anarchy is one of the most pleasant words in my lexicon.

9Makifat
Mar 25, 2011, 11:43 am

5
Hear, hear!

10tomcatMurr
Mar 25, 2011, 12:29 pm

it builds on decentralisation and constant shifting of power.

Therein lies the rub. Because with those things nothing else would ever get done. Who would work in the factories?

11pgmcc
Mar 25, 2011, 12:44 pm

#10 What factories?

12Phocion
Mar 25, 2011, 12:49 pm

Anyone who believes decentralization to anarchy will bring about some form of Utopia is an idealist at best and stupid at worst. Government exists for a reason. But why expect people to learn from history?

13RickHarsch
Mar 25, 2011, 1:30 pm

I am stupid at worst and an idealist at best. I have learned a lot from history, though, and find that accretions of obscenity bury hope; yet hope is the thing with a light on its ass.

14MyopicBookworm
Mar 25, 2011, 1:59 pm

The Green Party in England and Wales did actually try anarchy, in the strict sense of not having a single person identified as the "leader" of the party. The problem with this was that the media needed a consistently identifiable spokesperson, and it had a negative impact on any campaigning they did, so they eventually capitulated and elected a leader.

15urania1
Mar 26, 2011, 2:04 pm

16LolaWalser
Mar 28, 2011, 9:56 am

#14

Couldn't they just elect a "spokesperson"? :)

#15

Will do, because you say so.

17LolaWalser
Abr 1, 2011, 10:40 am

18RickHarsch
Abr 1, 2011, 10:41 am

Finally an answer to post # 12.