Anarchy doesn’t need to be redefined. The pillars are stable. What it needs is a new foundation, those very foundations that allowed the philosophy of Anarchy and Liberty to appear on the world stage in the first place. The Pillars are strong. The Foundation is crumbling.
Tag: respect
“Respect” Women?
When I saw a local billboard proclaiming “Respect New Mexico women“, and listing “Our bodies, our families, our decisions” as the aspects of women I am to respect, I knew it was all, and only, about abortion, and instantly rolled my eyes at the hypocrisy.
Be Careful What You Aim For
One way or another, everyone alive today navigates in a world that grows denser with competing ideologies. The level of devotion solidifies to match the breadth of possible alignments. There are now more people who are more sure of the rightness of their increasingly opposing values. Conflict is inevitable. Clarity is essential.
The Credibility of Statists
It’s like taking science advice from a person who has been convinced (or, who’s decided to “believe”) that the Earth is flat. It makes no sense to pretend they are credible in this particular arena.
Some Realizations about the Similarities of Religion and the State
I simply do not acknowledge as “good” ideas that effectively force upon me violence if I deny their tenants, whether it comes from the state, or a clergyman. I just won’t.
Outnumbered and Surrounded
Concerning “immigration,” no, I don’t want to be outnumbered and surrounded by people who feel entitled to violate my life, liberty, and property. But… I already am whether there are immigrants or not, just because almost everyone is statist, and that is the defining characteristic of statists.
Wiggle Room
How many times will politicos exploit the wiggliness of words to create fictional compartments in the minds of their followers? As the Jason Robards character said in the 1989 movie, Parenthood, “It’s like your Aunt Edna’s ass. It goes on forever and it’s just as frightening.”
Peaceful Anarchism 010 – Respect the Choices of Peaceful People (9m)
Peaceful Anarchism 010, “Peaceful people engage in decision making everyday based on complex criteria that only they can apprehend. We may have our provincial ideas about how others should live, but to endeavor to coercively impose our views onto them individually or via the guns of the State would be the very definition of slavery.”
Talk to, Don’t Provoke, North Korea
There’s little more we can do than hope that some cool heads around Donald Trump are telling him he’d be nuts to attack North Korea. I don’t know who they might be. Still, we must hope.
Be Free (Even When People Disagree)
Lots of people know how to be cool and confident as long as everyone is nodding their heads in agreement with them. It’s a lot harder to be cool and confident when someone listens to you and says “Sorry. I’m not buying anything you’re saying.”