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Originally Posted by Hasbinbad
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I do know what the dictionary definition of anarchy is, but I flatly reject it as biased from a state perspective.
The only real way to learn about it is if you talk to some actual anarchists with nuanced analysis and/or read hella books. It's at the same time much simpler and much more complicated than that definition, which is about as 13-year-old-playing-vice-city-version-of-anarchy as it gets.
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Originally Posted by Hasbinbad
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To me, anarchy has to do with autonomy, agency, and respect.
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did some reading at that site, work in a library after all, and there's a lot of holes in those defining arguments. the central idea of the individual's autonomy is essentially how societies formed anyway because it doesn't take a genius to understand safety in numbers. i refer you to the south park episode "die hippie die". same kind of reasoning is going on there, and a damn 4th grader calls them on their bullshit. the idea sounds wonderful but is unrealistic in that it depends upon an operating notion of everyone involved having the same morality. monoculture does nothing to enable growth of a person. humans learn best through conflict, but you operate wanting a sameness (you're anti-cultural-relativism statement earlier in the thread) which means you're just as impotent as my hypothesis stated. princess impotency i leave you with this:
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