Here is a concept that I have a hard time with. I keep running into people who think that Peace and Anarchy are opposite concepts. Wrap your head around this one for a moment. The opposite of peace is war. The definition of anarchy is a lack of government. In order to have war we need governments to start them. Stay Brown, Rev J
agreed. guess it's just people assuming their specific image of anarchy consisting of complete chaos. i've never heard someone say peace is the opposite of anarchy, are these people pretty wised in politics or are they just people yapping?
Whereas I believe it possible to be at peace with anarchy, the word anarchy can also stand for a chaotic situation in which there is a total lack of organization and control. The word's meaning is not confined only to "lack of government", but I get your meaning.
War doesn't need to be 2 nation states fighting each other, humans have been fighting long before the concept of government ever existed. A written and enforced legal system keeps us from turning into lunatics on each other and having harsh vigilante justice.
A "bill of rights", a well-seeked manual for how we should behave, and how people most likely will react otherwise, is of course encouraged.. The point of Anarchism from my point of view is that "Police" always goes wrong. They tend to be brainwashed into listening to their own authorities, and blindy follow the same path of enforcing authority. This pyramide scheme of brainwashing ends in fascism. The core of Anarchism, I think, is saying "fuck you and your laws, we make our own laws!". In a state of society where laws are working out perfectly, where everyone are happy, obviously whatever remaining Anarchists are the trouble-makers. This is not the state of society we live in at all. Historically, government is, and always has been bad - turning against everyone, even themselves - a force only of destruction. This why it must be limited. Under government also, there is no hope - 'cus all the real "Freedom-speakers" (make peace, not war), all with hearts of gold, tend to be trapped by their laws, and the only way they have any liberty to act, to live, is by escaping it. Without government at least there's hope.
well said, rev.in a place without ultimate authority,w/o the drive for material things and concern about territory, war would lose its place in our vocabulary. paisley.
Peace is similar to anarchy in that it lacks a government. But anarchy is a kin to violence, peace is not. So in the sense of the word 'Violent' Peace and Anarchy are opposites.
