It proves only that rivals can unite and cooperate when faced with a common threat greater than that posed by their rivals. Remove that common threat and the tribal rivalry will tend to reassert itself. To be a viable solution, anarchy has to be able to meet the security needs of everyone except predators under a full range of conditions. It can't depend on a steady supply of natural disasters.
Victor Bozzo wrote: > Sorry but New Orleans proves otherwise and I wrote about it on my > blog........ > > In my previous piece I asserted that what we were witnessing down in > New Orleans far more resembled the chaos of the State than the > peaceful co-existing that would occur in an Anarchist society. > What I didn't know was that people were rising above the violence of > the State and working together peacefully through voluntary cooperation: > "NEW ORLEANS (AP) - In the absence of information and outside > assistance, groups of rich and poor banded together in the French > Quarter, forming "tribes" and dividing up the labor." > "Some people became animals," Vasilioas Tryphonas said Sunday morning > as he sipped a hot beer in Johnny White's Sports Bar on Bourbon > Street. "We became more civilized." > > http://enemy-of-the-state.blogspot.com/2005/09/anarchy-in-new-orleans-i-stand.html -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Constitution Society 7793 Burnet Road #37, Austin, TX 78757 512/299-5001 www.constitution.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Constitution Society 7793 Burnet Road #37, Austin, TX 78757 512/299-5001 www.constitution.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------
