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RE: "Grow Up!"
I can totally sympathize with distrusting a lot of people. The question is, in a world of imperfect, flawed, sometimes malicious people, does it improve the situation to give SOME of those imperfect, flawed, and sometimes malicious people POWER over the rest of us? (And is it not the nastiest people who usually end up in those positions?)
That's a very thought provoking point. And to be honest, I don't know. I don't think that all leaders are terrible, or all police. I think there is a healthy mix. I was in the middle of training to be a cop, and injury took me out, but I saw a variety of people there for a variety of reasons. We could definitely use a few less meatheads who were just there to fuck some shit up.
I have experienced the same in politics. I was with the Republican party as a Precinct Committeeman for quite some time, and in my experience, there was also a variety of people and reasons for those people to be serving.
I think we tend to see the worst in those people because it is put on display. I think that a lot could change if we fixed the government rather than completely demolishing it. I think one of the biggest problems is corporate government, and businesses being in bed with politicians.
I am usually very anti-regulation, but I think that regulation and oversight is 100% necessary on those making decisions about our money and our rights and that highly regulating the interactions between government and business would solve a lot of problems right off the bat. Though, it is likely it will never happen, and I can see the advantages of just trashing it all and starting anew.
It's a very complicated and delicate situation.
Oversight by who? De-centralize and be responsible for your own money and the decisions you make with it...
Why try to reinvent the wheel though? To a degree, that's what anarchy is. Eventually, people will have to come together and reorganize again. Discover that it's not efficient to do everything yourself, or any better to privatize everything for profit. We have seen what doing that with jails has done. So ultimately, we all decentralize, then rediscover each other on a community level and reconstruct society to the point that it looks identical in 100 years. I just don't understand it when it would be so much easier to just fix the things that are egregiously wrong.
"Government" is not just cooperation and/or organization; it is violent domination. The only difference between voluntaryism and statism is that voluntaryists don't pretend that "authority" is real, or that anyone has an exemption from morality. There are literally millions of ways to organize and work together on a VOLUNTARY basis. What is "egregiously wrong" is the notion that violently dominating people is okay if it's called "law" and done in the name of the "common good." In fact, that has been the cause of the vast majority of injustice and human suffering in history.