A Case for Anarchy

Let’s talk about adult education. What is adult education? It’s a wonderful system in place for the further education – tertiary school, university, technical collage, job training, basically anywhere that educates adults just as the name suggests – of grown up folks. Now how does this work? Well it all begins with a choice do do something. An adult chooses, either because they want to or they know (or at least believe) that it will help them with their life and their careers. That is step one and there’s no one who makes the person or stops them from making this choice.

While undertaking their education it is left to them to decide how important it is to them. They motivate themselves to attend classes, study on their own and if they decide not to do those things then they are not forced to and not punished. The opportunity is there and the teachers teach only those who desire to be taught.

Everything about adult education is by choice and anything forced and anything punished is done by the person making the choice. Allow me now to put a question to you: Why isn’t this system wider spread than it is?

I’ve never made a choice to see people in my family or people in my neighbourhood go to war with another country. In fact they never made that choice either. They chose to allow themselves to be sent but not to send themselves. There was a government to make that choice.

I never chose to see the health system slowly become a privatised bastardisation, a government made that choice for me and whatever consequences there are is a punishment I never chose.

I never said “Hey, this criminal should be put to death” it was the government that said it for me whether or not I agree with it. And for the record: I don’t agree with it one bit.

I’m an adult and I’d like to think I’m wise enough and mature enough to make choice of my own. Now I’d like to choose if I want to be ruled by a watered down monarchy masquerading under some feel good name like “democracy”. Sorry but I don’t buy it.

Here’s some choices of mine:I’d like to choose what is more important between chasing after the boogey-man in a desert country and researching the kinds of technology that might stop the damage we’re doing to the planet and our future on it.