• 2 Posts
  • 1.61K Comments
Joined 3 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 15th, 2023

help-circle









  • I think of anarchy like a guiding ideal: flatten hierarchies.

    You can’t eliminate hierarchies. If you eliminate “official” hierarchies, you lack measures to prevent individuals from exerting their will over other individuals by force, which is just another hierarchy. As long as one person can swing a club at another, you have a naturally emergent hierarchy. Once you’ve created a group of people to stop people from swinging clubs at other people, you’ve invented a hierarchy.

    The anarchic ideal would be a system of organization to minimize the club-swinging. The proverbial sweet spot between preventing oppression without being oppressive. But it all ultimately comes down to club-swinging, you can’t have a purely anarchic system without enabling private power. The best you can do is aim for the flattest possible hierarchy.










  • Well, unless your legal name is Impound4017, I think we can both agree many people have at least 2 names, if not more. I’ve accumulated at least, mmm, 8 over the years. Probably at least double that if you get pedantic about minor variations. And that’s just screennames, I’ve had a number of irl nicknames too.