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I'm not sure I understand our point.

I can agree with some of what everyone says, but it's the "total package" that plays out in the real world. When you strip away the feel good stuff from Anarchy, you have the perfect world for the bullies of society to run rampant.

There are many places right here in America that are in a near state of Anarchy; I live in one of those. This is a private neighborhood in an isolated area that the police do not like to patrol, which leaves us pretty much on our own. In 23 years I've watched more people move out than have stayed. In fact, more than half of the 125 lots are still empty; and the people who live here are not happy with the scant law enforcement they thought they would enjoy.

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Can the "feel good" stuff of anarchy really be stripped from what it is? Have we ever been game enough to find out? Society itself is a bully. A scared little bully. It prefers the "Total package" to remain under wraps than to be played out, as though such a thing is possible. It wants its laws enforced by enforcers as opposed to us ourselves. The funniest thing is that the lion-hearted, who are most at home in chaotic wildernesses of every kind, do not want "anarchy"! We only want eachother. As Tormentations suggested, we find tribes, we join them, help create them, we leave them, and so on.

I think our point should be to enforce ourselves. Let the law speak out of our nature.

 

People come out here to get away from those rules of society, but when the neighbors dog tries to bite them in their own yard the first person they call is Animal Control. When someone threatens them, they call the Sheriff. They find out real quick that others have moved here for the same reason and some of them are not so nice.

Sometimes IT is the only thing between your neighbor's hands and your throat.

There's probably 60 lots occupied and maybe 10 or so groups (factions) who are friends and watch out for others in their group. These groups have their own alliances and issues which are sometimes at odds with others groups. I was one of the first people to buy property here in 1987 and by 1991 politics had evolved into what was/is sometimes a ruthless matter with law suits flying and criminal charges alleged and filed.

These people, who wanted a little piece of anarchy, were bringing in the government and creating their own set of laws. It has been a fascinating study in social relations. One of the members of Oath Keepers militia group is the first one to call the Sheriff when someone doesn't do what he wants. I criticized him on one of my web sites for inciting violence and he tried to have me arrested for terroristic threats; we went to court for an arrest warrant and the judge laughed him out.

The people in this forum are not the real Anarchists, they're out in secluded areas like Montana living on the land and couldn't care less what you people in the city are doing as long as you leave them alone.

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I agree. The internet essentially is anarchy, isn't it?

 

ooooh, I wanna see that