Anarchy
What came into your mind when you read that word? Scenes of clashes against police, against govornment? Visions of uncontrollable chaos tearing the world apart? Ignorance of law and justice, daylight robbery and bloodshed in the streets? Why? Because we live in oligarchies which respectively mimic and mock dictatorships and democracies. The idea that anarchy means war in the streets is beneficial to staying in power, because it stops people realising how little such rulers are needed.
Too often, the words anarchy and chaos are used synonymously. Anarchy is not just a violent free-for-all.
Anarchy is equality. Equal rights, equal responsibilities. Anarchy is brotherhood, sisterhood. Anarchy is the puppet cutting its strings and walking with the puppeteer. Anarchy keeps power out of individual hands, lest they reveal themselves the corruptible clutches or chained to higher oppression.
Democracy and dictatorship decays unto oligarchy: corruptible elites who can shape the nation to their will, barely swayed by the collective fist of the vox populi, a tiny cluster of cooperative dictators safe from the repercussions their actions have on the real people down below as the elite squats sheltered within the walls of the halls of power. As their decisions potentially tear their involuntary subjects apart and they take us for what they can get, they have the nerve to call anarchy chaos.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for democracy. It could just do with being a bit more... democratic. Allowing everyone to vote for anything. That is the principle, is it not? That the people as a whole have their say in the matters of their own nation? For everyone to have their choice, their right to equality with their neighbour? Is this not the most democratic a system can be? This, readers, is anarchy. Not death, not destruction, not entropy, but an equal say for every man, woman and child.
Too often, the words anarchy and chaos are used synonymously. Anarchy is not just a violent free-for-all.
Anarchy is equality. Equal rights, equal responsibilities. Anarchy is brotherhood, sisterhood. Anarchy is the puppet cutting its strings and walking with the puppeteer. Anarchy keeps power out of individual hands, lest they reveal themselves the corruptible clutches or chained to higher oppression.
Democracy and dictatorship decays unto oligarchy: corruptible elites who can shape the nation to their will, barely swayed by the collective fist of the vox populi, a tiny cluster of cooperative dictators safe from the repercussions their actions have on the real people down below as the elite squats sheltered within the walls of the halls of power. As their decisions potentially tear their involuntary subjects apart and they take us for what they can get, they have the nerve to call anarchy chaos.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for democracy. It could just do with being a bit more... democratic. Allowing everyone to vote for anything. That is the principle, is it not? That the people as a whole have their say in the matters of their own nation? For everyone to have their choice, their right to equality with their neighbour? Is this not the most democratic a system can be? This, readers, is anarchy. Not death, not destruction, not entropy, but an equal say for every man, woman and child.