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October 21, 2019 at 3:04 am (This post was last modified: October 21, 2019 at 3:07 am by Athene.)
(October 21, 2019 at 2:43 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(October 21, 2019 at 1:54 am)Athene Wrote:
Well, I'm happy that you're amused--But that's not what I was actually suggesting though.
I was responding to your specific claim that any and all attempts to re-establish governance or impose tyranny would be limited to militia members.
What I was suggesting was that such a threat could come from virtually any group of individuals not on board with the notion of anarchism; Including, but not limited to, staunch conservatives, religious fundamentalists, Marxists, ethno-nationalists, ex-military...Hell, even ordinary folks who may have just miss having a Constitution and flag to pledge allegiance to could conceivably attempt to organize and implement their preferred brand of law and order. And that they would undoubtedly be armed--as most anyone living in an anarchic society would be.
I wasn't making the case for anarchist society being a realistic possibility. I was simply musing on a hypothetical scenario in which such a society would already exist.
Your assertion hinges on the assumption that everyone with the mind to make a power grab is a thinking person and that thinking people with the mind to make a grab are immune to overestimating their own strengths and capabilities, though. Neither of which is really the case.
So could a thinking person successfully co-opt a militia of anarchist True Believers and bend them to his/her will of reimposing government tyranny? Uh...Sure, I suppose. Lol
It seems far more likely that they would seek to organize a coalition of like-minded individuals and perhaps enlist the aid of some of those ex-military types I mentioned earlier though.
Not everyone who grabs for power will be a thinking person. In fact most won’t. But the notion that somehow all the amphibious power hungry types, both thinking and non-thinking, would just miraculous cancel eachother out, and anarchist society will somehow remain free of tyranny, is totally contrary to every historic instances when things began to appear to evolve in that direction.
What will happen in free for all, most of the ambitious will be baffoons and become road kills, as the clearest thinkers, the most capable of cunning stratagem and ruthlessly calculation bubble to the top. Chances are eventually a figure like Napoleon, or Attila the Hun, or Genghis khan, will rise to the top. And all the most laquaciously freedom loving will turn out to be the most grateful for the tyranny.
Okay, you do remember the part where I said that I couldn't imagine how said society could defeat a broader more surreptitious threat of tyranny without essentially abandoning it's core principles, right?
Lol...I guess not.
So, are you just choosing to ignore that? Or are you just so enamored with seeing your words in font that you can't remember?
