Whose anarchy?

[Mark Kohut]

Yeahp, I say. Bakunin's and Maletesta's "anarchism' fall under Morris's
critique and as he sees Pynchon
showing that it condemns itself and therefore fails.

In some analogous way, maybe, this failure of 'governmental anarchism' so
to name it, is akin to the constant
theme in Pynchon that what can start out as naturally good--the wonderful
open brave new world of the internet for example---
usually gets lost, gets subverted, goes bad.

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 12:10 AM peterthooper at juno.com <
peterthooper at juno.com> wrote:

> Kropotkin’s, maybe? Bakunin and Malatesta, no thank you! Murray Bookchin,
> well probably. It’s like microbreweries or artisanal cheese, or in some
> cases like moonshine stills which probably use lead piping & ought to be
> avoided; operations like that justify government: Dukes of Hazzard meet
> their Roscoe P. Coltrane and they deserve each other!
>
> A) absence of archy - for that matter, where is mehitabel? that darn
> tarantula
>
> B) Catch-22’s chaplain, the Anabaptist whose defining characteristic was
> not being a Baptist, still gives me a chuckle. He shows up in _Closing
> Time_ which had sad and funny mixed up and probably a better book than
> _Catch-22_ but as an older reader I was less patient with it.
> Anyway, like postmodernism, I get cranky about movements defined by what
> they aren’t - “get off my lawn” though I hope I remember to toss them their
> ball as they leave, except maybe Grover Norquist and Rand Paul that start
> tearing away the good parts of government first.
>
> C) Basically when they start doing nasty stuff they suck, but their theory
> and the non-coercive elements of their praxis can be attractive
>
> D) Triangulation:
> Lord Acton
> Badfinger’s song “Perfection”
> That Furry Freak Brothers comic where one of them picks up a hitchhiker,
> and a cop with a really friendly face comes along to be, like, helpful, and
> the hitchhiker yells, “F*ck you, pig!” Freewheelin Franklin, or maybe
> Phineas?* is sitting there going “Sheesh!”
> Just like Norquist or Rand Paul**, that hitchhiker.
>
> *(Unlikely that it was Fat Freddy, for obvious reasons)
>
> ** Now Mrs Paul, no problem.
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