>>43880Then again, the more I think about this, the more I begin to question what the concept of `anarchy` really means. I mean fundamentally, none of our governments are imposed upon us by nature - they're human constructs which we've entered willingly, simply because we all profit from mutual cooperation.
There's no divine being that swoops down upon the earth and grants a president or chancellor supreme executive power, it's a distinction that arises purely naturally out a of human society in which every actor only operates with respect to their local environments.
Even in cruel dictatorships, people depend on the government and the government depends on the people. So are we not all living in highly advanced forms of anarchy? And more importantly, if you answer this question with ‘no’, at which point does an anarchy stop becoming an anarchy? Specialization is a fundamental and important part of a successfuly community; and a government is simply a collection of people who have specialized into spending all day making societal decisions so that the rest of society can spend their day doing other things like farming and tailoring instead.
There is about as much meaning to a community subdividing into a government and a general public as there is meaning in a community subdividing into farmers and people who consume farmed goods. So what really makes an anarchy an anarchy?
