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By definition, anarchists don't make rules.

So what is your meaning?

Go tell an anarchist that you think "no rules" doesn't make any sense or will only work in an ethnically homogenous society.

Usually they'll tell you how you're doing wrongthink and that their ideal vision of the anarchist utopia has already been figured out. Because babies and animals do anarchism.

Even though we have maps of wolves obeying borders.

Basically I'm saying "anarchism" is a term people on here like to throw around as a goal but usually what they mean is "their set of rules"

It's a fun little lie.

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. 6d ago

Yeah, I am very philosophically in agreement with Anarchy at times as a goal but that requires small isolated and value sharing individuals which doesn't exist in reality.

makeheroism 6d ago

Yeah it's a nice theoretical concept. But there's a reason I would never call myself an anarchist at this point in my life.

And a lot of the people that believe it to be possible all meet any opposition to it in very similar ways that ultimately just make the entire idea sort of embarrassing to align with.

. 6d ago

I am currently struggling to describe an over riding disposition that I see constantly in bitcoin circles. There is this kind of anarcho libertarian attitude that verges on nihilism and empty cynical smuggness. The knee jerk everything a state does is automatically wrong, if you agree with a policy you are called "bootlickin statist"

They can't even be happy for one second that millions of people just got the real boot of communism off their neck for example. All they can say is neo con or something.

Like are they just a liberals hiding in an anarchist skin suit?

makeheroism 6d ago

There's definitely some kind of skin suit being put on by these people and I'm struggling to put my finger on the a term for these types as well. I posted the other day about unashamed psychopaths and these were the type of people I was talking about. There's an amount of technocrat in there too but somehow they mean it in a *good way* and don't see that as an implementation of rules or whatever.

I don't know what to call these people. But they're a frustrating bunch.

. 6d ago

I have been rolling this around in my mind for months but is still an amorphous goo of an idea

makeheroism 6d ago

Well I'm glad I'm not the only one. If you land on anything catchy let me know hahah

atyh 6d ago

the consensus meme generation.