[B4Ranch]

Have you listened to the video in Post 89?

What Anarchy Isn’t:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMoPBDz5ycA&feature=youtu.be

[Windflier]

Have you listened to the video in Post 89? What Anarchy Isn’t

I just watched the video. Those are some powerful, yet instinctual ideas being discussed. They go against the grain of everything I've ever known (or been indoctrinated into) about governments, and how and why free people institute them in the first place.

A lot of what the new Anarchists are preaching, harkens back to the most fundamental precepts that guided the Framers in their construction of our system of government. Ideas that came out of the Enlightenment, and then made their way into our founding documents and central agreements as a people.

Viewing our grand experiment through the eyes of the Anarchists, it would appear that the Framers only made it halfway to realizing a truly free society composed of sovereign individuals. Despite their best efforts, they still gave us a framework that could (and would) be subverted to the will of the evil, and used to subjugate the very people it was meant to serve.

[CowboyJay]

Have you listened to the video in Post 89?

I watched it. Some parts are spot-on, and agree very much with the founders' arguments against large centralized government. ANY large power structure will attract and empower sociopaths.

Other parts are just wishful thinking. External bad actors can only be countered by cooperative action. Every 'anarchist' society or those lacking a large centralized common protectorate have been run over by neighboring despots. Every single one. Limited gov't is great. The complete lack of a government is just begging to be ruled by external actors.

[Jacquerie]

I listened to it last night.

I’m not sure how people can be stopped from forming government. It’s our nature to do so. I also didn’t follow very well why violence, rule of the jungle, wouldn’t take over.

[Dead Corpse]

Yep. Pretty much...