Does anarchy now mean running away?
I could be wrong but, I always thought anarchy meant fighting the system. A lot of people call themselves anarchists but run from the system? This seems to me to be the exact opposite of anarchy? Am I missing something?
Care to elaborate a bit?
Is it better to run to another country if your in America? Or stay and fight the systems of control by using great ideas like bitcoin and steemit? Please Also see my comments below? But can you be called an anarchist if you leave to be free from the systems you oppose? You truly are not in the game anymore by leaving? You are safe and will not care as much because you have no longer any real skin in the game? Until this system you left finds you like the English American revolutionary war found the early Americans? And now the same systems are back in many new forms and what is the anarchist to do? My ideology is to fight the opposing systems by implementing ideas like bitcoin etc. but I am probably wrong? but was just wondering if one can be an anarchist and still leave the fight behind for others to be at risk and what happens when enough anarchist run from the problems? I think the great ideas will come from the people stuck within and subject to the results of the problems? But I could be wrong? A lot of smart people ran to other countries to avoid systems of tyranny, but are they still anarchist by running from the problem?
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My anarchy is a combination of speaking out against the system whenever and to whoever I can, (Opening minds is the key), structuring my life in such a way as to rely on the state as little as possible, and withdrawing my consent from the state as often and in whatever ways I can.
I grow and consume as much of my own food as I can. I collect and filter rain water instead of relying on the city to provide me with it. I compost my bodily output instead of relying on the government to deal with it. I use whatever creative ways to avoid giving the government money whenever I can.
What I do not do is vote or petition the government for redress. I will not ask my slave-master for better treatment or work for the election of a slave-master who might treat the people marginally better. I will not write my congress critter or petition the White House. Those are foolish games only there to make people believe that politicians are listening to them. That they care. They are not listening and they don't care. And though some may claim that standing for principle is foolish. I disagree. "The principle of the thing" has always been of prime importance to me.
Oh, I'll never stand for the pledge of allegiance or the national anthem either ( go Kaepernick)
My anarchy will NEVER involve violence against the government or anyone else unless I'm defending myself or others.
I'm not sure what you mean by "fighting the system" and "running from the system". But I hope my reply helps you understand how this old anarchist defines Anarchy.
I fight with ideas. this is the only way to win, violence is not good for many reasons and should be avoided at all costs. Bitcoin is a good example of a great idea which is a good way to fight the system. Steemit is also good from what I see so far. Running away takes yourself out of the game. Which could limit your ideas by decreasing your risk. Some anarchist leave their own home country but still do good fighting with ideas but it's not the same, it carries less weight because they left and no longer risk enough to really truly care about fighting for change in the very system they ran from. In my view anarchist does not mean to run from the problem? Again, I am probably very wrong. One could argue that the pilgrims who fled England to start again in America were anarchist? I could not dispute that? But I think they still had to fight that system to be truly free? Now the same system is back in America? Greater Economical and political systems of mass control? So here we are again. Should American now migrate to start again? Or should we support great ideas and fight that way like we are doing here on steemit? Just wondering? Just want to share ideas.
By fighting the system. Do you mean participating in the system?
I think that fighting it is exactly what we are doing when we speak about the ideas of liberty. We are utilizing our natural right, for lack of a better word, to debate and describe the failures of the system that enslaves us. We have the internet, for now, and we are using it to learn and teach. We win a big battle every time we open a mind. We win a small battle every time we figure out a way to barter, or grow our own food, or catch our own water.
I guess the big debate is whether to fight the system from within or to ignore it out of existence. I choose the latter, but either way. Figuring out how to make the government obsolete should probably be an objective that we all share.
When the system is too big to take down in one day retreat becomes a way to keep your cause alive, until the day arrives in which you can take back what was ours. You wouldn't fight a Lion with a toothpick would you?
Great Post and topic to debate on.
Maybe, if it is a poisoned toothpick that would sedate the beast long enough for me to cut his teeth and trim his claws a bit? Seriously , my point is if you run you have no pressure to come up with the solutions because you lack
any skin in the game so much that you really just allow the beast to get stronger? Or you could argue that by leaving you deprive him of food but then he eats what he can and then comes hunting? In any case is the runner an anarchist? I really lean towards saying NO? Only because I equate anarchy with going against the systems of control or tyranny and not so much running to another country. Again, I am not certain which is why I am honestly asking the steemit community? I see a lot followers as I am also a follower of anarchist like the dollarvigilante who well I think he ran? I am not saying anything bad here against anyone? I just want to know?
do vigilantes fight the systems of tyranny or run far far away from it and still fight from a safe perch? How long does the perch stay safe if no one stays to fight the beast in some mindful intelligent method? Me I like ideas. A lion he cannot kill an idea because ideas move in people and spread like a virus which chokes lions wholesale until all that is left hopefully is the people who just wanted to be free. The lion will always need food but that is the lions problem and the people who stay within the feeding grounds of the lion I guess?