Rand Paul

[Raven]

The OED defines anarchy as belief in the abolition of all government and the organization of society on a voluntary, cooperative basis. No mention of violence, so a no government needed libertarian would be an anarchist. But that is not what most people think when they hear the word. They think far left radicals. Anyone I know with anarchist leanings think that way of themselves. It's a pretty notion, but realistically would not work. The Old West frontier was probably the closest thing to anarchy as a social construct, or so it seems to me. The really was no government, and you were pretty much on your own. Groups of people helped one another out due to mutual necessity. As things progressed they moved toward having a government.

Perhaps I should have worded it differently but of course you need an army, justice system and all the usual government stuff, but that is not what we were really on about at that moment. I just feel that if you don't take care of everyone when they need it, you have no excuse to consider yourself a civilized society. Capitalism is a particularly predatory phase in cultural evolution.