Am I an Anarchist?

[Rev. Rye]

Yeah, the funny thing about politics is there's really two aspects to political theory: theory and practice. It's not hard to see the appeal in anarchism; its critique of the oppressive power structures is often dead on (then again, I think the same of Hobbes' "war of all against all"); I suppose, if it just boiled down to that, I'd consider myself an anarchist, too. However, the thing is, the assumptions that most forms of anarchism hinge on (especially for their planned solutions, and particularly the claim that it's reasonable to expect that, in the absence of power structures, humans can just sit down and sing Kumbaya) simply cannot be applied to planet Earth (in the interest of fairness, Hobbes' defense of absolutist government falls apart just as quickly; after all, said monarch is still one of the same men who are wolves to men, and, at best, they can just redirect the brutality to particular targets).  

Also, Massive text sizes are to be used sparingly. They just make whatever you have to say look like an eyesore. Just use the default text size.

I basically agree with everything you wrote. And apologies for the text size, I rectified the situation.
Hobbes's political philosophy is essentially based on the idea that people are trash and need to be controlled. That is the fundamental difference.
I agree that practically in today's world you need a state given the massive amount of population and how complex we have become.
I appreciate law and the intricacies of the legal system. However, I do feel that the laws need to be simplified and streamlined.
The problem is you have legislatures which each year keep on adding more and more laws to the books as opposed to eliminating superfluous and needless laws.
My philosophy is the more laws there are the less free a society is. The ideal is that there should be the minimum amount of basic and essential laws and people should generally be free to do what they want to do.

Yeah, there is a lot of chaff that can potentially be cut, from both the legislature and the legal code [our draconian drug laws that give America an alarmingly high incarceration rate being among them], but the crucial thing should be to find a proper golden mean where society is actually working properly. It could mean significantly fewer laws, it could even mean significantly more laws (naturally removing several old and obsolete laws and creating more that actually fix problems.)