Yeah it’s endlessly frustrating to me that people are so quick to give confused newcomers exact instruction on procedures to world build. Non-compete did that too by laying out his concepts for anarcho-cops, anarcho-prisons and anarcho-government and people still parrot that bullshit on reddit everyday. Anarchy should never be a program for world building imo.
I haven’t read The Dispossessed but I’ve always meant to. Don’t really have the attention span for a novel.
anarcho-cops, anarcho-prisons and anarcho-government
Is Non-compete an an-cap?
I used to spend time trying to debate the an-caps on Reddit (partly because even with their faults, they tended to be closer to actual anarchism than the r/anarchism totalitarians, and partly because I got banned from r/anarchism the first day I was there).
I never saw any of them refer to their proposed systems of laws and police and courts and prisons that way, but I often did.
program for world building
To their partial credit, I think a lot of people try to frame anarchism as a defined system to be implemented mostly just because they’re impatient. Right on the heels of the understanding that anarchism is a societal structure that can only come to be when enough people are ready, willing and able to make and bear responsibility for their own decisions and cede to all others the right to do the same comes the realization that human society is nowhere even close to that yet, and that can be pretty discouraging. So I understand to some degree the desire to speed the process up.
But then there are also the ones who frame it that way because they just reflexively presume, like all other authoritarians, that whatever they believe is so obviously right that anyone who disagrees can and should be forced to submit.
Yeah it’s endlessly frustrating to me that people are so quick to give confused newcomers exact instruction on procedures to world build. Non-compete did that too by laying out his concepts for anarcho-cops, anarcho-prisons and anarcho-government and people still parrot that bullshit on reddit everyday. Anarchy should never be a program for world building imo.
I haven’t read The Dispossessed but I’ve always meant to. Don’t really have the attention span for a novel.
Is Non-compete an an-cap?
I used to spend time trying to debate the an-caps on Reddit (partly because even with their faults, they tended to be closer to actual anarchism than the r/anarchism totalitarians, and partly because I got banned from r/anarchism the first day I was there).
I never saw any of them refer to their proposed systems of laws and police and courts and prisons that way, but I often did.
To their partial credit, I think a lot of people try to frame anarchism as a defined system to be implemented mostly just because they’re impatient. Right on the heels of the understanding that anarchism is a societal structure that can only come to be when enough people are ready, willing and able to make and bear responsibility for their own decisions and cede to all others the right to do the same comes the realization that human society is nowhere even close to that yet, and that can be pretty discouraging. So I understand to some degree the desire to speed the process up.
But then there are also the ones who frame it that way because they just reflexively presume, like all other authoritarians, that whatever they believe is so obviously right that anyone who disagrees can and should be forced to submit.