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In a monarchy rulers are appointed by a select few or by a select custom and are entitled to rule as long as they live.
In anarchy rulers are deposed on a regular basis, leaving no long lasting, entitled rulers.
Guess which our system most closely resembles. Excepting of course our Supreme court rulers.
patrice
(47,992 posts)understand it thus far, being how quickly the rulers are deposed.
Personally, I call bullshit on anything that refuses to identify itself. Masks are dishonest. If we're "standing up" then stand the fuck up and don't try to take invalid forms of power by trying to obfuscate or prevaricate about who exactly is standing for what. I think this has been our problem all along in American History, anonymity. I think anonymity serves plutocracy, not freedom.
If more people would honestly own who and what they are and accept the consequences for who and what they are, there'd be less need for "big government" and more freedom.
Anonymity is bullshit.
The anarchists that founded this country, well, the top leaders anyway, put their John Hancock on that declaration thingee, thereby telling the monarch just who they were.
But the real point is that those anarchists set up a manageable anarchy that barely exists today. Right?
patrice
(47,992 posts)the representation which is not direct enough, not democratic enough, ergo not anarchic enough.
Personally, I like a balanced dynamic tension between anarchy and order, so I guess the criticism I just mentioned could be a more positive trait, but there is no balance in what we have going on today, so the bad thing about that is that each component in the dynamo reacts more and more extremely to the imbalance, further im-balancing the relationship, causing yet more imbalance.