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Old 08-18-2005, 11:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Diablo
Who says there is anything holy in this universe?
Just kidding.

1. You do realize that the government and law enforcement officials are FAR more capable of determining who was behind it than you are. Say someone comes into your house and kills your significant other while you're away. How would you handle this when you get back? There's no evidence, other than DNA and possibly a small article of clothing (say they broke through a window and there are some fibers on the glass and floor because their shirt ripped). How the fuck would you find out who did it? Keep in mind that since this is anarchy, there most likely wouldn't be a DNA database. But even if there was, what are you going to do, collect the DNA, somehow get access to the database, and when you do find a match, hunt them down over the whole world and kill them? That's similar to what the law enforcement would do, except they would have more than 1 person looking for him, thus being a lot easier to find him. So now you're fucked, with a corpse of the person you love in your family room, and no repurcussion for whoever caused you and her this much pain and grief. -as stated before this could happen just as easily right now than if anarchy was the state of things, except if that happened today then I'd still beleft w/ all the b.s. govt. & it's "injustices." Revenge & punishment are useless, there's nothing inherenty right or wrong so there no basis for them. there only hopeful attribute in the best of scenerios is a potential deterent to would be invaders. Anarchy is more akin to Anti-statism, that is w/o it's negative connotation of utter chaos, as if government was ever a real order to begin with.
2. How would you live without a job? Would you farm your own food? Keep in mind the second you start farming and selling some of your food, that's a job. So, as Jeff said, you would have to be sustaining, either that or somehow have lots of money so you don't need to have a job. -agriculture is detrimental, civilization is very bad. one could "live off the land." edible plants and whatnot.
3. Hell, right now the only reason you can get by without a job is because your girlfriend gets paid by the government! - I have my share of contradictions, but this is not one of them. I could "live off the land" if so wished or live off the excesses of civilization as there is a surplus of abandoned buildings to squat & overflowing factory dumpster to eat from. plus there's plenty of free food everywhere. Theft is always a viable last resort.


*Voluntary Simplicity -Voluntary simplicity is a lifestyle considered by its adherents to be a sustainable, ecologically sensitive alternative to the typical, western consumerist lifestyle. The term "downshifting" is often used to describe the act of moving toward a lifestyle based on voluntary simplicity.

*Nihilism -a revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake; complete denial of all established authority and institutions.

*Primitivism -1.A belief that it is best to live simply and in a natural environment 2.A belief that the acquisitions of civilization are evil or that the earliest period of human history was the best; Primitivism, or anarcho-primitivism, is an anarchist critique of the origins and progress of civilization. Primitivists argue that the shift from hunter-gatherer to agricultural subsistence gave rise to social stratification, coercion, and alienation. They advocate a return to non-"civilized" ways of life through deindustrialisation, abolition of division of labour or specialization, and abandonment of technology. There are however numerous other non-anarchist forms of primitivism, and not all primitivists point to the same phenomenon as the source of modern, civilized problems. Some, like Theodore Kaczynski, see only the Industrial Revolution as the problem, others point to various developments in history such as monotheism, writing, patriarchy, the use of metal tools, etc.
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