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Hello My name is Joe Ryan-Leah and i am going to use this page on the Eleven IQ website to write some slightly censored articles.
You don't like it? then complain to another member of the band and I will change the content.
I like to think of myself as a very liberl person, however, so if you are open minded you probably wont be offended or confused by the things i write here. Thankyou and Fuckyou alike.
Spiritual Teachings and Preachings.
OK well the title of this article is a phrase which has plagued me for a long time now. Those prepared to sit down and listen to me have pretty much all agreed with me on this, but there will always be those who KNOW everything and don't need to listen to people. Those people are known as "wankers".
Anyway, when most people hear the word "anarchy" they counjure images of mindless violence on city streets, people thinking only of themselves with no thought of concequence. The actual idea of anarchy, or at least my version, couldn't be more different.
Yes anarchy does mean a society without laws, rules or people to enforce laws. However, this does not mean chaos. Anarchy is the situatiion whereby laws etc are no longer needed because people are no longer causing each other any harm. Ask yourself; why do we have laws? The answer you will likely come up with is "to keep order" but we only need to keep order becuase we know that human beings commit crimes, and i mean universal moral crimes like murder or rape. If we somehow suddenly did away with all law and authority there would be murders and rapes etc and this is why anarchy is just an ideal. By an "ideal" I mean that anarchy is unnatainable. It is effectively a perfect society and most would agree that there is no such thing as a perfect society and there never will be. The point of an ideal is that in working towards it we improve and move closer to that ideal even though we know we will never reach it. It's like having a target in a race, the fact that you can see the finish line gives you the will to carry on and gives you a direction to go in (although in a race you usually do finish).
Anarchy cannot be forcefully imposed on a society, the society can only acheive total anarchy through generations of slow progress. We need to slowly work towards anarchy by behaving in a manner whereby we don't need laws to direct us, guide us and repress us. In this sense it could be said that everyone is more or less an anarchist, because more or less everyone would quite like a perfect society. If all it means to be an anarchist is agreeing that anarchy is the eventual goal of society then what is the point of calling yourself an one? Well I think being an anarchist can be a state of mind. If you consider yourself an anarchist, someone who does not agree with the idea of rules and regulations, you are going to behave in exactly the way you want to. The point is that you do what you want, you may commit crimes but you don't consider them crimes because to you there is no such thing. You don't have to watch what you do for fear of punishment but what you do is not harmful to others so it doesnt matter if you break a rule of the state.
If anarchy is the ideal society then an anarchist must be the perfect person. So really in this sense self-proclaimed anarchists are actually only aspiring to become total anarchists in the same way society is aspiring to be in a state of anarchy. When you start to think in these terms, that extreme social and political stances aren't realisitic but are productive and important, you begin to understand the point of them. Being an anarchist is really just being a nice person who is comfortable in themself and the things they do and someone who doesn't cause harm by doing that. That's a perfect person who inhabits a perfect world and this makes it hard to argue against wanting to be an anarchist.