I do not exactly label myself an adherent of #anarchism, but I am intellectually curious: I would very much like to know if social harmony might not require Law.

That is what we are taught, as Americans raised and schooled and entertained with conventional American values: society is impossible without Law, without obedience.

I remember to this day having a liberal political science teacher in high school, a fellow I appreciated because he assigned an entertaining variety of texts (including a somewhat goofy 1970s environmentalist tract, Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecotopia) who told a story of an animatronic Abraham Lincoln at a Disney park, programmed to tell visitors to obey the law.

Ecotopia - Wikipedia

@mxchara Any other better way to have humans live together can't work because it requires a huge majority of people to engaged with it and most people are not willing to do that. That's why we end up with systems that are ruled by a minority who set the parameters within which we must all live.
@Rick_d_card "most people are not willing to do that" is an extremely vague statement
@mxchara Well, I guess I could have expanded the text but mastodon only allows so many keystrokes. I could say, in my experience I'm guessing 90% of the people who I speak to about politics and getting involved say similar things to, "oh, I hate politics; I don't care about all that" or, "I've got too many other more important things to think about".