There is no such thing as Anarchy. It's a myth or an oxymoron.
~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2018-07-14 |
There are very few that are actually on this end of the spectrum. Anarchism is the reductio ad absurdum that the authoritarian progressives use to accuse anyone to the right of them (which is virtually everyone), "If you don't want my great idea, you must be an anarchist". But there is no such thing as Anarchy. It's a myth or an oxymoron. Put 3 kids on a playground, and in 5 minutes they'll have defined the rules for a game and how they want to play. Anarchy is unstable, and it quickly decays back to a stable state of a libertarian or minarchist kind of government (military, police and courts, individual and property rights).
Since there is no true anarchy, and the right starts usually towards the center (to the left of minarchy) and moves left (with some social safety nets, regulations and laws beyond personal property/liberty). While the left starts on the far left, and moves lefter.
History[edit | edit source]
Family units, tribes, fiefdoms, kingdoms, religions and governments all evolved from anarchy. Humans crave order and constraints, and a bit of hierarchy. Thus if you leave groups to their own devices, they make rules. As the group gets bigger, they break into factions based on what they care about, and fight for different rules (politics). But that's all about order. So anarchy is an unstable element, and it evolves to a libertarian state. And one faction always wants more government/authority than what we have, and another wants less.
Left and right are inverted terms in Europe and America -- but in America, the left is the one that wants elitists ruling the rest and more centralized power, and telling us what to do, for our own good. And the right is the group that wants less authority, more religious freedom, more free speech, less regulation, and so on. They do have issues they cross on -- the left wants less consequences for breaking the rules, and the right is about more order and consequences. The right also can cross over and want rules on morality that align with their religious beliefs -- but the left has plenty of those too (like environmentalism, social justice, redistribution of other people's wealth, and so on). But as a general rule, the more leftist places in the country are trying to micromanage people's lives, and the rightist places more want to leave people alone at the federal level, and even at the state and local levels.
More[edit | edit source]
- Libertarians are anarchists - There is a reductio ad absurdum argument by the left, that Libertarians are all anarchists, or it would lead to anarchy. This is like saying anyone for a single social program wants complete Authoritarian Marxist Tyranny. There might be a few that far out on the bell curve, but they're not the norm of the movement, nor close. And you have to be willing to ask to find out.
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- Wikipedia: Anarchy - a fictional idea of no government. Despite all evidence that even in a family of 2, there's a government and rules.
- Wikipedia: Night-watchman state aka Minarchy.
