Life's Better With Ayoub™

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.
~ Edward Abbey

ANARCHISM:--The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.
~ Emma Goldman

As you can probably tell, I've become a bit of an Anarchist. But I'm also an Idealist, and under the cold light of the moon, I can be a realist.

The failure I see in anarchy has been very well communicated by childeofloki, when he said:
All it would take is for one charismatic person to decide that "those sheep herding bastards in the next valley have better land then us, I say we take it!" In a world of small communities, one wouldn't need to amass great armies. All you need is some good ol' boys and some sharp sticks.
You cannot kill the fighting spirit in man. If you did, what then? What if bandits spring up between those communities, throw backs of an older, violent time? Who will stop them from rampaging throughout the country, killing, taking, and raping as they will?

And then we get back to a requirement for authority and defence. So it's a catch 22.

The other option behavioural modification... But that's unethical

It was tried years ago to ship off all the aggressive folk to Australia, but that didn't work either ( too many are back and working in the UK now ;) )

Is it too arrogant to say that humanity isn't ready for peace yet? Maybe, I'm not immune to anger and the need to punch someone in the face every now and then...

But we are stuck in a never ending cycle of war and peace. War may have given us a lot of technology that we take for granted today, but is that a fair trade?

Anyway, I'm rambling... maybe one day I'll get all of this straight in my head and write a book about it... Yeah, me, a political theorist... At least my Mum would be proud...

More people are dying, and more battles are being fought.

We have so much capacity for giving, either for the Tsunami, Katrina, Bombings, or the Earthquake. But then, our leaders have such a capacity for killing.

Maybe if we got rid of the leaders...

How would life work without government?

There are theories, but my favourite would be that all people would be able to come to agreements for defence, and that people would not, in general, want to hurt each other.

But maybe that's a little idealistic.