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Posted on 29/04/2011 by admin

I have always had a leaning towards anarchy, ever since I was fifteen and I learned that archons were basically judges in ancient Athens elected every year and one of them would give his name to that year and so was called the eponymous archon. It produced a form of calendar as people could say ‘remember what happened in the summer of (insert archon’s name), and everyone would know when the speaker was talking about. Some years there was no archon. Anarchon years.

Anarchy has come to mean violent civil disobedience  with intent to overthrow but what it actually means is there is no overseer of the law. I can see everyone immediately thinking that would lead to violence but anarchists have mutated to an intellectual level where lawlessness is as much to be avoided as it is in our own polity. What is refers to is a self governance so refined that we carry the ethical values of civilization not in a series of commands from high, but in ourselves. The preferred anarchist is in fact a far more sophisticated human being than any we have at present for we would agree no group of people could possibly be so ethical as to get along without law enforcement.

Anarchists still  have a long wait for their day.

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