Anarchy and so-called Anarchists (personal view)
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
If you've used the lovely h2g3 search engine to do a search on anarchy, you'll have read a few pages about it already. Maybe you've learnt the real deal about anarchy, maybe you already think you know the real deal. If you don't, by all means do a search and learn. I hope my view helps you see both sides of the story.
To sum it up, anarchy is basically society living without law and order, without a government, without a police force, making it's own laws and stuff to suit itself, so that theorerically, everyone can live life and be happy, right?
Well, damn me, but I just don't see how that's gonna work.
Ultimately, if there's no authority, other than the general masses, or perhaps some individuals elected to be the strong arm of the law, then things are going to be dominated by individuals who have power. Stronger, more powerful individuals. These people will run amok, making life unpleasant for people, and with nobody to stop them, your anarchistic lifestyle will not be enjoyable at all, if you're constantly being beaten and robbed.
Even if there's no bad people to bother the appointed lawkeepers, you can bet you will get a case of Bent Cop Blues somewhere along the line. The same problem you tried to stop by douing away with the police force.
Admit it: if you were being battered in the street, you'd kiss a cop's ass for them to save you.
What else is there? No jobs in a modern-day sense, just people working to, uhhh - what's it called? Well, I'm not sure, but people generally just working to make the world go round, yes?
Well, who's gonna work when they know they don't need to? Or even better, who's gonna work when they can live off the efforts of others? Who's gonna work when they know that what they do is going to be stolen or destroyed by powerful individuals? Same problems you have in yer normal capitalist society, except these problems are brought to your face, where it hurts the most.
Ultimately, the big problem is concerning these people who are strong and will refuse to work together with people when they know they can live confortably by dominating the masses. In today's society, it's big American businesses. In an anarchistic society, it'd be gangs of thugs. Gather the masses to try and stop them, you may want to, but these people will stop at nothing to have their way. You can't deny it, you meet these people in the streets a fair time.
Anarchy can't work because of the thugs I have mentioned, but also because of the general apathy of people when they know they don't HAVE to do any work. Nobody wants to live in a place where they can't guarantee their security. You look at what happens in places abroad, like, oooh, East Timor (I think that's the place), and imagine it happening on your doorstep. That's what happens in anarchy, and it sure ain't fun.
To sum it up, anarchy is basically society living without law and order, without a government, without a police force, making it's own laws and stuff to suit itself, so that theorerically, everyone can live life and be happy, right?
Well, damn me, but I just don't see how that's gonna work.
Ultimately, if there's no authority, other than the general masses, or perhaps some individuals elected to be the strong arm of the law, then things are going to be dominated by individuals who have power. Stronger, more powerful individuals. These people will run amok, making life unpleasant for people, and with nobody to stop them, your anarchistic lifestyle will not be enjoyable at all, if you're constantly being beaten and robbed.
Even if there's no bad people to bother the appointed lawkeepers, you can bet you will get a case of Bent Cop Blues somewhere along the line. The same problem you tried to stop by douing away with the police force.
Admit it: if you were being battered in the street, you'd kiss a cop's ass for them to save you.
What else is there? No jobs in a modern-day sense, just people working to, uhhh - what's it called? Well, I'm not sure, but people generally just working to make the world go round, yes?
Well, who's gonna work when they know they don't need to? Or even better, who's gonna work when they can live off the efforts of others? Who's gonna work when they know that what they do is going to be stolen or destroyed by powerful individuals? Same problems you have in yer normal capitalist society, except these problems are brought to your face, where it hurts the most.
Ultimately, the big problem is concerning these people who are strong and will refuse to work together with people when they know they can live confortably by dominating the masses. In today's society, it's big American businesses. In an anarchistic society, it'd be gangs of thugs. Gather the masses to try and stop them, you may want to, but these people will stop at nothing to have their way. You can't deny it, you meet these people in the streets a fair time.
Anarchy can't work because of the thugs I have mentioned, but also because of the general apathy of people when they know they don't HAVE to do any work. Nobody wants to live in a place where they can't guarantee their security. You look at what happens in places abroad, like, oooh, East Timor (I think that's the place), and imagine it happening on your doorstep. That's what happens in anarchy, and it sure ain't fun.
