h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yes, anarchism may seem stupid to you, but that's most probably due to your narrow-mided and unecessarily misinformed view of what is infact a wide-ranging and much discussed concept, in both the political and more fundamental philosophical spectrum.

Firstly, before I go on, I must stress one thing:

Anarchism is NOT chaos.

Yes, there are some bored 15 year olds only in it for the image and this is disappointing. But I see no reason why this should be projected onto the rest of the anarchist thinking world. After all, these idiots usually grow out of it before long when they realise the sophisticated philosophy that is real anarchism.

Now, it may seem to you, (and even seemed to me before I educated myself) that we, as a society and a race need governments. This viewpoint deeply saddens me as it often just goes to prove the very opposite. Governments and authority have driven us into this narrow mindset where we desperately try to convince ourselves of their merits. We permanently try to find justification and sadly, over the many years of doing this, we've run ourselves into the hole we're in now. Social values have become distorted beyond belief and social conventions repress us so effectively that we never even speak out.
This is a society that must be changed, and I see anarchism as the only way to do this and create a free society based on necessity and human nature, rather than the greed it's built on today.

This is the point at which many people dismiss anarchism as unworkable and unrealistic. However, there's usually a simple reason for this: They project today's social structures onto what they see as the 'chaos' of anarchism. As you'd expect, this produces a hellish image of a society that they then mistakenly label anarchism.
We could never reach anarchism overnight, and it'd never even happen fully in my lifetime. We need real change and true reform. We don't want temporary solutions to today's problems, we want a working society in which we can live freely and peacefully.

Yes, I accept that this sounds far fetched and fully recognise that a 'perfect society' doesn't exist. Infact, I don't even know that anarchism as I describe it would work. There are some valid arguments against anarchism (or at least certain doctrines within it), however, there is no question in my mind that an anarchist society would be far better than anything acheivable within today's rigid rules and dogmas.

If you'd like a clearer definition of anarchism or any thinking within it, either read a book, or contact me and I'd be happy to explain all.

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