Question about Anarchy

with no government and no laws, what's to keep criminals and corporations from taking further advantage of the populous?

 

I don't believe Anarchism could actually work unless a fundamental shift in human consciousness were to take place first. If government were to disappear over night, I think there would be chaos, dictators would rise, and corporations would vie for power. Anarchy is a wonderful philosophy, how it would be attained though, I do not know. I wouldn't like to write it off as a possibility though, I do fundamentally believe that we can change the world for the better, and we can change the way people think and interact with one another. It just takes time....

 

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CARE TO CLARIFY?

 

What's to clarify? You asked who's gonna stop all the wrong-doings, and I told you.

 

myself is going to have a hard time keeping pedophiles away from children or stopping a billionaire from selling faulty merchandise or solving a murder...

 

Anarchy is a terrible idea, and i can safely say it's not going to occur in my lifetime.

 

i THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA, BUT IT SEEMS UTOPIAN AND UNATTAINABLE.

 

Of course its utopian, theres no way a complete anarchy could work today... what about the military? If anarchy were declared in the USA, some general would just take charge and it would split into waring factions. Still it sounds like fun too.

 

i wonder how the native americans pulled it off?

 

They didn't pull it off very well, they lived in tribe states with individual rules, wasn't really anarchy.

 

NO GUNS?
NO CURRENCY?
LOW POPULATION?

 

I cant really say what would be the best idea, but the current government is definately a bad idea. I dont belive in violence and would never do anything violent. But one thing i can say also is that i am not much for anybody having authority over me. i stand up very strongly for freedom. As of right now the government i think has way to much control over the american people. I can understand laws against violent crimes, i have no problem with that. Everything else is bullshit.

 

Anarchy does not nessessarily mean a lack of law or order, it is a lack of a hiearchy. People would make decisions together instead of letting one or two people decide the fate of everyone. Of course there's a little more to it than that, but that's the basic idea.

I guess that definition might vary depending on any individual's point of view on the matter, but people have this idea that anarchy means lawlessness, chaos, and every man for himself type situations

 

If you tell yourself something is unattainable, it will become unattainable!
The problem is PEOPLE. The majority of PEOPLE do not want upheaval, disorder or chaos in their lives, which is what the CHANGE to anarchy would bring, not anarchy itself.

Well, that depends on everyone within the dismantleing structrure to keep their head, have fun, and work to protect themselves, eachother and to enhance the positive energy put out by a completely liberal state bought together through a union of minds, and no coercive control.

If perhaps people were taught Spirituality instead of Religious Education in schools, if maybe more people were into, I dunno; Human Rights, opening and exploiting the power of Human Consciousness (and knowing how ours is exploited), Buddhism and Paganism, Sustainable Living and Permaculture, Sustainable Energy, Political and Physical Activism! And growing Industrial Hemp....yep, everyone was taught about those things in school, this world would be a beautiful place.

See, it is possible. Just not in certain places at the moment. Because they guide their people like sheep into the slaughterhouse of ignorance, and they are doing it now; the flock is heading towards the gates. Electronic tagging and bugging for all; and that's just the public stuff we hear about on the government sponsored "Alternative" sites/zines which i'm afraid to say a lot of us feed from. Mind control is out there, including the control to divide those who fight oppression, through ignorance, through set up acts designed to create panic and thus distraction from the real issues, and through the countless forms of Radio Waves and Chemical Receptors that can be transmitted and put in food and hygiene products, respectively.

I am not paranoid, I am well read.

 

anarchy seemed to work beautifully for decades in the grateful dead scene...

 

the government wants you to think that anarchy can't succeed. that is their currency. nature is anarchic, naturally. anarchy is nature. ego is control.

 

Damn right! It flourishes in other places, too.
The problem is that "Humans have a tendency to vex and annoy each other". (Alexander Hamilton said that.)
Shane nailed it on the head. It's all about out of control (exponential) population growth. What's the first step to solving this problem? Abolish the Catholic church!

 

What the hell does no guns have to with anarchy? THey had weapons, maybe not guns but weapons nonetheless. It's a bad idea though. What;s the incentive to do anything if you can never better yourself?

 

weapons for hunting