Not Ready For Prime Time
Our society isn’t ready for anarchy. At least not on a grand scale. Then again, does anarchy have to be on a grand scale?
Maybe the grand scale is antithetical to anarchy. It is. Anarchy is small. Local. Decentralized.
But we need anarchy. We need more anarchy. We need it now, but most humans are not anywhere near ready for it.
Examples of where it is working and can continue to work? Cooperatives. Employee owned companies. Community groups. Neighborhood associations. Essentially small pockets.
It’s there. People just don’t understand it. Anarchism is democracy fully realized.
A=D
Why isn’t it growing? I don’t believe enough humans believe society can function without a standing government. Without hierarchy. Most people cannot conceive of such a world, because that’s all they know, and they are conditioned to think in a vacuum.
Most people enjoy being herded like sheep, and in a country that was founded on dissidence and resistance, our children (not mine) are now taught that resistance and dissidence are bad. Treason. Unlawful sedition.
Bullshit to that idea! We need something to remove the blinders. Open some minds.
A goal of writers, especially poets and essayists, should be to cultivate dissidence and critical thinking. It’s how we nourish anarchy so it can grow.
We’re the keepers of the garden. We till the soil.
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