-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 26 June 2008, Dennis Lee Wilson was heard to say: > Chaos is disorder; such as we see in governmental interference in > the market economy, pogrom, genocide and wars between states.
I contend that it requires a government to _create_ chaos. Constantly changing laws in such a volume and number that no one can know them, arbitrary enforcement because the police and lawyers and judges cannot know the whole law either, and cannot be everywhere to enforce it even if they did. Oh, and destruction of lives, institutions and infrastructure (war) which has nothing to do with the people living there (while ruining their lives), just disagreements between the "leaders". If it is wrong for me to just turn around and kill someone, why does Clinton get to order the bombing of an asperin factory, or Bush order the invasion of Iraq, and not have them instantly charged and convicted on their own confession, of murder? > Anarchy is the absence of a king or political state. A free market, > guided by the invisible hand of price feedback is the classic > example of anarchy. Most, by far, human interaction is an-archic. > Examples are families, friends and shopping—as none of these > require governmental intervention. That is why anarchy is peaceful > and orderly, with a rather smooth progression of increasing > prosperity." One of the most telling aspects of the peaceful nature of anarchy is that when someone is _cannot_ be peaceful, they are considered a dangerous abberation. Everyone shuns them. The only ones who flourish by violence are government agents and the "criminals" whose livelyhoods come from the prohibitions created by government. > Even driving on the streets and highways can be considered > anarchic. Traffic violations sometimes make sensational news, but > the vast, overwhelming majority of driving activity is governed by > (mostly) reasonable rules and completely unsupervised by rulers of > any kind. They are also very flexible. People who tailgate are quite annoying, but no one does them violence (even though I think about it!) in retaliation. Someone runs a red light, the other people slow down so as not to hit them. Coming up on an intersection, even if I don't have a stop sign, I'm careful that other people are in fact stopping. Otherwise, I make sure to slow down or swerve to avoid them. Someone jumps their right of way? I may grumble, but it is so very much easier to tap the brakes and let them go than to make a big deal. After all, I've made mistakes too. It takes a government to say, on a clear summer day with no other traffic in sight, "You were doing 70 in a 55. I'm going to ruin your day." > As Butler Shaffer points out in his excellent article What is > Anarchy? (http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer60.html I would also highly recommend Roderick Long's "Answers to 10 objections to anarchy" http://mises.org/mp3/MU2004/Long2.mp3 or the transcript http://mises.org/etexts/longanarchism.pdf An excellent discussion of the reasons why even government-run courts don't work. Curt- - -- Treason! http://blog.mises.org/archives/007926.asp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBSGOUTS9Y35yItIgBAQIgKgf/V8pgZX8zSaQlbQ8qPSoizXkNgr8AD9w7 UwFqHenBEFEoTmL2niY1JE2eDn5ZnCgxtKAGHO7Y1XzCtCLX33tq9zh/WS/ddavN Dvuy9nggQcDPJFfBfsFo8VzBtWcEZNWSAvNYN/jROvHLPM+RV5WWr4yKC0NulaUB ZpMCPQrQ/j1HvWdnzdpHFKt9FYZGcaWhC4Qb2zQmAXj/5sMw1mO1jgPLjFdXaomb sS3DhW1KN6xlBz1N90iocVfr+5WiMPl/Xt6FUrEcoO5/x8aaekKQU9KajO8PW/Gt ABIlTP1XMC9hrU3KV6OO8Kt2OV++/lxxKTSKnbOWHkKiIbK/hDmKKg== =xh6H -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
