I wrote this as a response to a post in Facebook and it got kinda out of control. So I cut it out and put it all here.
I believe in anarchy 100%. I also believe it is fundamentally unattainable. The problem is that 100% of people need to believe in anarchy for it to work, and all of those people need absolutely equal access to everything. In order for that to happen someone must take charge, why? Because a camel is a horse designed by a committee, because nothing can be built without teamwork and communication, and for that to work it needs to be co-ordinated, co-ordination needs to be strong and led by competency. Not everyone will be, nor needs to be, competent to do everything. Leaders emerge, organically and naturally, in every species, from the ant to the person. Those who don't indulge in society lead marginalised lives on the constant edge of annihilation The human race stands alone in its capacity for love, creativity and glory on top of cruelty, deception and abuse. This is what we are. We can wish, hope, argue and stamp our feet all we want but it will change nothing in the short term. Had there been a a better way we would have found it (we've had tens of thousands of years of painful evolution, learning and development to do so. To expect us now, at this moment in time, to be able to find a way that is better than last years is both futile and wasteful. Live, grow, try to make your own life better, and by extension the lives of others. do unto others and hope they don't fuck you over. I believe in anarchy 100%, but I'm also a realist, and a cynic. Yet I am a dreamer and hopeful. We can ask for nothing more than what we can take from this life without hurting others. If others do the hurting, well, fuck 'em.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that the current leadership of the planet, be it tiny fiefdom in the jungle, emergent state in an area of flux or well established 'democracy' we are all still engaged in the diplomatic fuckwaddage of the past. Why? Because we are humans, and this is what humans do. Very rarely has a leader of a country had a lasting and profound effect on the social infrastructure of their respective lands. change has come from the constant and persistent whining of those prepared to stand up, and occasionally be knocked down, for a 'cause'.
Government and leadership is both fluid and dynamic. sadly neither of these in a constantly positive direction. History teaches us this, why do we keep ignoring that?
(Well, becaue we're all pissed off and want change,m that's why, so even if we did reach nirvana we'd get bored with it and want something different! (and yes, I know the proper meaning of nirvana.))
