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SPRUNTHow does anarchy not devolve into “might makes right” when bad actors are in limitless supply?
Vigilance and not naively thinking someone else can handle your social responsibilities for you.
Bad actors are also a minority of a minority of people. The world doesn’t turn to MadMax just because there’s no one with a gun threatening your life if you don’t do what they want of you.
ValmondThe problems are the smart ones, weaseling their way into power, dividing and spreading hate, doing anything for power, even if it takes decades when ordinary people just want to work and live a normal life.
I also think this is the biggest, and maybe only, problem to be solved before we can have a good society.
A test for empathy for any managerial post is potentially one way to do it, but as usual, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Change how we distribute authority and we solve that problem.
An individual can’t have power over others without the people respecting said individual’s authority to dictate how the people run and collectively manage their lives. Individuals are able to obtain this authority through the hierarchical institutions that the people abdicate their political autonomy to dictate their lives without their direct and informed consent. Anarchy dismantles those institutions. That’s like the entire root of the system.
Anarchy is literally the opposite of Hierarchy.
Sorry but for me it just becomes easier for some charming strongman to grab power in a system you describe.
How can he grab power that doesn’t exist? Without the hierarchy for him to command that others be subordinate to the strongman’s will, that strongman has no power to grab.
When the collective is able to freely disassociate with the strongman trying to make power grabs, the strongman is unable to consolidate power to himself to command others against their will.
If he tries to get violent, then he has to fight a collective of people there to defend each other from these kinds of strongmen when they get violent.
It would be leagues harder for strong men to grab power, because the very systems that dictate our society would be fundamentally structured to not allow individuals to consolidate power over others. The way it is now fundamentally allows individuals to be out into power and the people just have to shut up and accept it or else face the end of a police baton.
He’ll generate that power by rallying people?
Who said it will be against anyone’s will? Example: Maga (but there are loads through history)
If he gets violent too early, that’s easy (see hitler for example) but that didn’t solve the problem at all.
And then you say the system should dictate our society? And that in some manner would not allow individuals to consolidate power. Like should you have an anti power police? It’s all super hazy.
So say that it’s 2060, you fish down at the lake in a utopian paradise. 5 dudes show up and just take your fish, what happens?
Seems like you just do not understand Anarchism and are trying to compare it to current society, which it is fundamentally different from and unable to make direct comparison to.
MAGA exists because of our current institutions reinforcing those beliefs. Dismantle those and those beliefs disappear with them.
No, you wouldn’t have any police, you would have a completely and fundamentally restructured society that doesn’t allow for individuals to garner hierarchical power and exert authority over others without direct and mutual consent from the parties involved.
Your hypothetical isn’t a “utopian paradise” if 5 people feel incentivised to take your fish instead of just fish themselves. Why would they? They would understand that if they do so and gain a reputation for being thieves who take things by force then no one will want to associate with them, and thus they will lock themselves out of the collective benefits of society.
You’re having a hard time convincing me, someone who is already interested. How will you convince Maga (that is just an example), and dismantling society won’t help, another will grow in its place, like history has shown again and again and again.
As for the 5 fish thiefs, well some people have no empathy, they’ll prefer stealing than working, what is your society (if you can call it that) going to do about it? This is a fundamental question, if you don’t solve it then your system, IMO, wont work.
Sorry this seems to be too complicated for you to grasp then.
Downvoting and berating, is that your “anarchist way of life”? Bet you think anarchy is vandalism.
And I bet you’re a simpleton who thinks vandalism is inherently a bad thing.