He’s the embodiment of our country’s greed, ignorance, and desire for power made manifest. A Beelzebub of our own making.

I wanna play too!

My point is that knowledge can be used for oppression as well as liberation. Like, people defining a political concept like anarchy gives them authority over other would-be anarchists. What does that have to do with a community eating?!

Hmmm It feels like you cherry picked some different things from the threads and just kind of mixed them together for that one. Very anarchistic of you I like it.

I AM the effigy to burn. I don’t need to make one up. The anarchist movement needs people to question its systems of power. Right down to the very definitions and concepts its built upon. Otherwise, after the revolution, we’ll all just be rounded up and thrown into mass graves by the very people we fought beside. But you wouldn’t know anything about that I guess.

Lol what?! Now your sending me on quests? On that note I’ll simply refer you to my earlier point about knowledge and control oh wise sage.

Well when I see people gatekeeping the idea of anarchy I can’t help but call them out for it. Sorry.

Saying anarchy as a concept is about the freedom to define anarchy how I want isn’t a strawman. It’s just being true to anarchy.

The Wikipedia page seems more confused about what anarchy is than you do. And where does it state libertarianism has fewer rules than anarchy? I can’t find that part.

Yes. And if you have a problem with that, you don’t get anarchy.

And my point is that your idea of anarchy that’s ‘evolved over time’ and has ‘actually existed in real life’ is antithetical to what anarchy actually is. You’ve confused yourself by over intellectualizing the concept.

How is a lack of rules more closely associated with libertarianism? Anarchy is the literal absence of government.

And now you’ve made my point about power and control for me. Anarchy is freedom and liberation. Here you are using it as an intellectual prison.

Unfortunately, if I read any text about anarchy it will only lead me further away from what anarchy actually is. That’s the nature of the beast.

But what is the IT they know how to execute? Anarchy isn’t really a ‘thing’ so much as an absence of a thing. The idea of a government built on no government is contradictory. That’s why you have to vibe it.

WTF are you talking about? I’m talking about anarchy. Not whether schools should exist. If your employing anarchy as a system of government and expecting schools I don’t know what to say. That’s absurd no matter how much you love the concept.

See that’s the problem I have with this position. Knowledge is something you either have or don’t. Its something that can be kept from you. If someone can be ‘in the know’ about anarchy by studying it, that creates systems of hierarchy and power. Defining it is intellectual oppression. It becomes just another form of political domination and control. Anarchy is, in fact, just vibes.

Learning and passing down knowledge are great human capabilities. That goes without saying. I was questioning how much that applies to the idea of anarchy before you’re simply thinking about it too much. Like, are you making rules for how to anarchy?

How much over intellectualizing does it take to need to read about anarchy?

Welcome!