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Sure. But in this world, how do you prevent anyone (especially the wealthiest, or the most armed) to take control, use violence and form governments of their own, or at least try and release chaos? This is the blocking point in my understanding to be able to envision feasible anarchy...

VonMises 5mo ago 💬 1

Great question. I think the answer is both simple yet unsatisfying. Agorism and anarchism is not a political structure or a governing theology like democracy or socialism. Instead it is what you do everyday, you trade with who you trust, you disassociate with who you do not and most of all you do not comply with what is mandated or thrust on you simply because of someone who doesn’t understand has written it on a piece of paper. The constitution of the United States doesn’t grant you your rights but instead guarantees that your inalienable rights cannot be infringed. People know this but often misinterpret just how free you already are.

The problem is ignorance. And it’s not easily fixable.

The question becomes, “is this police officer, or senator, or judge too ignorant to understand my inherent and god given freedom before he puts me in a cage?”

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O Expedicionário 5mo ago

The problem is ignorance, but the specific kind of ignorance that creates realities. Once a certain reality is stablished it does not matter what an individual thinks anarchism is, or freedom is. Once your phisical body can be caged, your speak silenced, idealisms does not really mater, the “fair” anarchism doesn’t really matter. So the problem is not ignorance itself, but the oppresive generally and gruadually accepted reality that ignorance creates, not because everybody is an idiot and us “smart” but because its a human trait to distract from gradual things.