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Re:Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (2000) on Saturday September 05, 2020 @12:48PM (#24384938)
True but also not true.

Anarchism isn’t devoid of understanding of reality.

Anarchisms goal as a broad social meme is to not allow an official body that coerces the public towards further erecting of tent pole power structures within society. Like we have a Constitution and abdicate legislative work to a mythical free market, where an Amazon size entity can manipulate the labor and retail markets on a whim.

It seeks to establish a tent pole hierarchy based, at least the sources I agree with offer it something like this, and then within that it’s local communal rules. No influencers from DC enforcing proper life in collusion with their moneyed brethren on this coast, regardless of how the masses would spend their time.

But yes at the top it’s a tent pole like any other.

Trying to set aside physics itself isn’t the goal of anarchism. Don’t be ridiculous.

Pre-Columbus America’s are often mythologized as all hippie, but they were probably the purest anarchist society we can study.

Those who lived by the water fished and maintained the coast. Those inland made tools for doing that.

And we’re talking communities that could rival them contemporary Europe.

How complex we all think it is to change when really it’s just doing away with European notion of proper social hierarchy always leading back to a council of especially wise men whose wisdom was point guns first.

It’s an emotional attitude like capitalism. Neither are laws of physics. Just a personal attitude that one will not be a social control freak nor kowtow to them.

We have none of the old problems of logistical distribution. Why do we their old tenets and rules?