Should Anarchy be given a new name?

You have a program which is basically a framework for a "website" in which the user puts his skills, interests, etc. all kinds of useful information to get to know them or to decide if you want to know them. Instead of going on the internet however, the website goes on your computer, which you network up, locally, with your neighbours. First bonus - you don't have to pay for web-hosting.

If you have an internet connection, you get first dibs on that connection but the program gives free access to the web to anyone in your local area network in order of how far the computer wanting to access the internet is from your computer. Second bonus - free internet for anyone who doesn't want to pay for it. The person paying for it doesn't lose anything cos he has priority over the others but no one uses their full bandwidth all the time, he has surplus which he can give away.

People can look around their locality at anyone who has installed and filled in this program and find out about people around them without having to meet them. If there's a plumber in your area you can pay him cash or help him out in someway in return for him doing some plumbing for you if you need that done. If you don't live in a city you won't know how isolated it is, but no one knows each other. It's shite. Third bonus - the growth of community.

I think this could sweep the world and if not completely replace the "I want more things" ethos with "I want more skills and to use them" then at least move towards it.

 

Ha ha right on bro, i'm an anarchist to...i'm also too lazy to write long winded essays online and prefer to keep things in one sentence format...

 

Yes .. absolutely, in my opinion. I have been using the term for quite a while now. Although I do have reservations about trends associated with anarchism (not necessarily anarchism per se), anarchists/libertarian-socialists are certainly the group I would claim most affinity with. I think that using the term "anarchism" is shooting one's self in the foot to a large extent though.

 

Well... whenever I say I am an Anarchist, I sometimes do feel like going into Johnny Rotton mode...
Fly...

 

I think we should call it Rosalyn instead, I've always found that a beautiful name.

 

So, anyone been following the happenings in Haiti over the last year?
Aye, I believe it to be on topic.
There's lots of stuff you can find on the net. Here's an article from the bbc.
Haiti: A nation still on edge

America's endless culturocentric-driven meddling has been involved of course...

 

As for another name.
Perhaps 'decentralization'?
An opposition to a central power that dictates laws seems to be a prevalent theme within anarchism.
perhaps 'community' ?

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Good idea. We could call it 'communityism'. Or even better, we could shorten it to 'communism', which is much catchier

 

!lol!!

 

In a way, anarchy is closer to the original sense of the word 'democracy' than any modern democratic nations (ie when everyone in the country or whatever gets to express an opinion and have a vote on every decision, not just on which autocrat should take all the decisions for them). Maybe we should call it decentralised democracy. I believe in decentralised democracy more than anarchy cos anarchy connotates no system of government which I'm not sure is practical. I realise that's just a connotation and the word really only means 'no rulers', sorry I'm going on a bit now, I think I've made my point.

 

Did I make a point there? I'm not sure. Oh yeah, decentralised democracy, call it that.