A Case for Anarchy

I’d like to choose whether or not I’m a member of a “religion” or a “cult”. I’d like to choose whether or not there’s such a thing as a “political border” and whether or not I am a member of a country or of the human race.

I think you get the idea by this point.

What ‘government’ has become, in this world, is a stagnant mess of bureaucracy that slows down the decisions being made by old white men who get paid too much money to spend a lot of time bickering like children. Henry David Thoreau once said “The government is, at best, an expedient.” and he was right. But the government has not served any such purpose and doesn’t plan to any time soon. Whatever good it has done for humanity is now a glorified memory and government remains as a rotting corpse propped up by blind hopefulness as some kind of macabre monument. It’s putrid, ridden with maggots and serves no purpose but to disgust anyone who stops to look up at it.

So we need to get rid of it. Let the people make choices on whether or not it’s morally acceptable to walk their dog through a particular park or how many Indians qualify as a raiding party. The government only encourages laziness in such decisions by making them for us. Humans are not faulty by nature but by choice. Humanity has chosen to become lazy in making decisions and letting others make them for us.

There is a functioning moral centre at the core of the human being and when faced with a choice that the law has not already decided his choice, he will make the right one most times. And if he doesn’t? Humanity has already proven that it’s not only moral but, at times, savage. It’s beginning to sound like I’m contradicting myself, I know. But let me put it to you like this:

A man is faced with the choice of stealing someone’s TV or not. Most people will make the moral choice not to. Others will not make that choice. What happens? They are punished by government sanctioned enforcers under government policy and that policy will be much nicer than the angry victim who was wronged. When morality is lacking it is the will to survive that tells us what to do.

So in a world where we are free to make our own choices it is those who take the moral high road and those who want to survive that make the right choices.

A government only gets in the way. For all the good it may do, it does more harm and gives too much power to people who should not have it. It’s liable to make all the wrong decisions and the consequences are for the millions that they supposedly represent. People bicker and argue over things like socialism, democracy, dictatorship, leadership, republics and monarchies but in the end the only answer for government is removing it.

Even the best governments are more concerned with economics than with people and even the most noble seeming politician is self-serving. There’s no such thing as true altruism and the systems in place only supports selfishness for the sake of selfishness.

I put forth that a better future is not in the hands of rich old men with a joke that passes for charisma. Our progress has always and will always lie in the hands of the people who are more than able to make the right choices for themselves and those around them without one body to lead them without regard for who they’re leading.

Let us make our own choices for our own good and realised that half the time our choice to aid ourselves, in all the selfish glory, will aid others. Whether it’s morality or the need to survive that drives you, you know what’s best. Why are you still letting an guy with a comb over tell you what to do and what is right or wrong?

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