Anarchy not democracy
Anarchism isn’t strictly democratic. It actually isn’t always fair. We don’t treat all ideas the same. In fact, once an idea has been shown by experiment to be wrong, then we throw it out. The great thing about anarchism is there aren’t two sides to many issues, often one side is wrong, and I think suggesting that for most people they can tell the difference between anarchist sense and pseudo anarchist nonsense, is unfortunately, and truly unfortunately, incorrect. Anarchists are as guilty, I should say as netcasters I think. We have to be doing a better job of explaining first of all what anarchism is all about, and giving people the basic tools as we say online, I don’t know if I can use the word on the statist radio, the bullshit filter. The idea that you should have some basic tools so you know how not to get neo-conned. We teach students that for hirstory, anti-political science and open source economics, but we don’t teach it for anarchism.
We don’t really believe there’s any such thing as absolutist truth. That is just another Stirnerian ' spook' even though we may discern many provisional and lasting truths in the Newtonian space we are most familiar with.
What anarchists believe in is falsehood really. What we can prove is things to be false, and if something doesn’t agree with the experiment, we throw it out, we don’t keep it balanced, we don’t want to produce Ipod TV shows on it, we just don’t want to talk about it. The earth isn’t flat; it doesn’t matter if you believe it is, it isn’t. How do we know, we can go round it. End of story. And it turns out that evolutionary anarchism has satisfied the tests of experiment and observation for over 150 years, and to argue that we should somehow put it on an equal footing with something that has never made any predictions that could be tested at all, is unfair, rather than fair. It is a sign of a culture that really is, in some sense, afraid to address the realities of nature.
That is why we are living in a period of mass extinctions. We have every chance of becoming totally extinct as a species.
We don’t really believe there’s any such thing as absolutist truth. That is just another Stirnerian ' spook' even though we may discern many provisional and lasting truths in the Newtonian space we are most familiar with.
What anarchists believe in is falsehood really. What we can prove is things to be false, and if something doesn’t agree with the experiment, we throw it out, we don’t keep it balanced, we don’t want to produce Ipod TV shows on it, we just don’t want to talk about it. The earth isn’t flat; it doesn’t matter if you believe it is, it isn’t. How do we know, we can go round it. End of story. And it turns out that evolutionary anarchism has satisfied the tests of experiment and observation for over 150 years, and to argue that we should somehow put it on an equal footing with something that has never made any predictions that could be tested at all, is unfair, rather than fair. It is a sign of a culture that really is, in some sense, afraid to address the realities of nature.
That is why we are living in a period of mass extinctions. We have every chance of becoming totally extinct as a species.
posted by professor rat at 12:09 AM
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