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RE: A Little Something For the Delusional Anarchists of Steemit

in #anarchy8 years ago

Good post. I upvote it not because I necessarily agree 100% but because it has value and generates commentaries. This is an endless conversation about what system is best... so I’m not going to extend on this but what I can say is that throughout history many different systems were put at work (monarchies, communism, fascism, socialism, democracy, etc.). It was a trial-and-error type of works that usually takes a long time grow and eventually die (everything in life go through cycles). What I think true anarchists ought to value (yes, most people think anarchy has a bad connotation but the real definition is really simple: minimal and weak government, or not at all) is that we need to have a system that leverages the value of human nature as much as possible. This is extremely difficult given our nature but as we keep evolving (just like technology is) we may hopefully reach a point where it benefits most people, but again this seems to be far down the road.
What I think anarchist, libertarians, classic liberals or however you want to call them, should strive for is a new system where Higher Law or Natural law is the true law where individual liberty is protected from the weaknesses of basic human nature. These laws have been found (yes, found, not imposed by an establishment) and even somewhat written in the U.S. Constitution (the constitution was made to purposefully prevent government to grow). This is one of the reason why America was great but political power somehow took over (not 1 Article of the Constitution is respected today)
It certainly is not easy to change such a system that we have today, but why do we see this wave of ‘anarchists’ today? Well I am of the opinion that it is because political power has gotten to a level where it becomes unbearable to many people. Remember, government is the only institution that has the privilege of using force on persons who have not harmed anyone… digest that for second. There are so many examples of this every day. A lot of people, it seems, have forgotten (or never bothered to learn, which goes back to your point @kyriacos, most people are lazy) this today and seem to not be bothered by the fact that politicians live above the own laws they create.
Anyways, to conclude, if I may, maybe if people could live by 2 simple rules it would be a great start to a fairer system: 1) do everything you said you would do and; 2) do not trespass/encroach on other persons or their property.
Cheers!

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I appreciate your input man. I hope we will expand on all these in the future. I am actually preparing another rant on this