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Haha I guess that was a pretty bad answer.

Anarchy seems like an asymptotic goal that you can never really reach. But if you actually limit a governments functions to protecting the rights of the people it was declared to serve. So protecting life, liberty, and property ala Frederic Bastiate's "The Law" then you would be pretty close to anarchy.

It sure didn't work out that well here in the states. Once people realized they could vote for politicians that promised to plunder their neighbors and then created these cartoonist puppet political parties it started to go to shit.

This is probably why voters were required to own property in the beginning.

makeheroism 2w ago

Yeah I agree. I think property ownership being a necessity probably kept things pretty balanced here. I think we were largely taught "women couldn't vote" was a trick. I view it more of there was a vote per household. But yeah between opening voting up to everyone and then flooding the country with all sorts of people that can't comprehend the basis of the country let alone agree with the values things seemed to get out of control fast.

I was really only teasing about your answer. I think no government is a decent goal. I just don't think it's an option because we have strayed so far from the original meaning of what a nation is. But I guess does an anarchical society even consider itself a nation? I mean would there be a border? Would anyone be free to come and go or does everyone have to agree on the format and function of things? I don't know I'm riffing

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G Force G 2w ago

I think property ownership was used as a proxy to select for those who had received a classical liberal education (trivium and quadrivium), and a basic Christian understanding of human rights. I'm not a Christian, that's just what I think was the logic there.

G Force G 2w ago

We have a pseudo representative government in which the representatives and judges come from a corrupt psyoped public and the executive is always an intelligence asset. All are puppeted by international bankers.

makeheroism 2w ago

Yeah I agree with all these sentiments.