Anarchy

[David Morris]

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Kevin Long:

I have some friends who are anarchists. I, myself, was one too, roughly
between graduation from college and 9/11. During the last third of that
period, though, I was increasingly aware that I was talking out of my ass,
and that "Anarchy" as a political theory doesn't really work.

I don't mean "Anarchy" as in "Crazy punk rockers burn the white house." I
mean it in the actual political theory sense, where there are no nations,
no government, no one has any authority over everyone else, and everybody
is equal. Think of it as a kind of uber-libertarianism.

As Larry Niven said, "Anarchy is the flimsiest form of government. You just
brush up against it and it falls down." I think what he meant by that is in
an anarchistic society, the first tough guy who comes along can set himself
up as grand poobah for life. likewise, any hierarchical organized structure
(Like, say, a corporation or a religion) are likely to evolve into
governments, even if they're not political and not really interested in
doing so.

My own falling out with it mostly had to do with learning more about
evolution and neurology. Humans are, by our nature, hierarchical. Not like
ants, but in a sloppy way more like a wolf pack. Anarchy, by its very
nature, goes against our basic survival instincts programmed into us over
the last million years by nature. I don't see how any government based
around the abolition of specific human survival instincts can work,
realistically.
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