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2017-09-28 05:44:34 UTC

harmonious relationship between what?

2017-09-28 05:44:53 UTC

do you even know why governments were established?

2017-09-28 05:45:21 UTC

To perpetuate exploitative relationships built on dominance and slavery.

2017-09-28 05:45:30 UTC

ahahahahaha

2017-09-28 05:45:39 UTC

funny

2017-09-28 05:45:44 UTC

but no

2017-09-28 05:46:11 UTC

governments were designed to defend the people from foreigners

2017-09-28 05:47:18 UTC

Were they? At which level of development? For that to be true, then people couldn't defend themselves without government, which is false.

2017-09-28 05:47:53 UTC

I am speaking of ancient times.

2017-09-28 05:48:18 UTC

the people could not organize properly against a raider party

2017-09-28 05:48:44 UTC

the people were not able to defend themselves

2017-09-28 05:49:19 UTC

I have no idea what you are talking about.

2017-09-28 05:49:43 UTC

you don't seem to understand

2017-09-28 05:50:14 UTC

others would organize raiding partys to steal from other smaller villagers

2017-09-28 05:50:25 UTC

normally food or women

2017-09-28 05:51:01 UTC

What culture are you talking about?

2017-09-28 05:51:15 UTC

ancient african.

2017-09-28 05:51:29 UTC

Pre Mesopotamian era

2017-09-28 05:51:31 UTC

Let's go with your 'raiders' example. Didn't that 'work'?

2017-09-28 05:51:46 UTC

didn't what work?

2017-09-28 05:51:53 UTC

the raiding partys?

2017-09-28 05:52:09 UTC

I mean, if raiding didn't work, why make a response to them?

2017-09-28 05:52:21 UTC

raiding did work.

2017-09-28 05:52:36 UTC

thats why villages combined with eachother

2017-09-28 05:52:45 UTC

and developed governments

2017-09-28 05:52:59 UTC

and then armys

2017-09-28 05:53:06 UTC

to defend from raiders

2017-09-28 05:53:14 UTC

Hmmm, this makes sense actually.

2017-09-28 05:53:21 UTC

Government is for defence.

2017-09-28 05:53:27 UTC

yes

2017-09-28 05:53:34 UTC

and helping the people

2017-09-28 05:53:35 UTC

Anarchy is for offence.

2017-09-28 05:53:52 UTC

offence of what?

2017-09-28 05:54:06 UTC

Class and private property is not helpful. It is domineering.

2017-09-28 05:54:22 UTC

Offence of the people.

2017-09-28 05:54:28 UTC

helping the people, should be dictated by the people.

2017-09-28 05:54:48 UTC

By they can't. The only thing people can dictate is themselves.

2017-09-28 05:55:12 UTC

thats not my point

2017-09-28 05:55:28 UTC

the people should decide what the government helps them in.

2017-09-28 05:55:48 UTC

majority>minority

2017-09-28 05:56:26 UTC

They can't.

2017-09-28 05:56:29 UTC

People are not gods.

2017-09-28 05:56:36 UTC

no

2017-09-28 05:56:50 UTC

but the majority should dictate.

2017-09-28 05:57:11 UTC

everyone should work to benefit the community.

2017-09-28 05:57:18 UTC

not themselves.

2017-09-28 05:57:29 UTC

nation>individual

2017-09-28 05:58:07 UTC

Wrong. All political structures create a political class and monopoly of ideas.

2017-09-28 05:58:19 UTC

not always

2017-09-28 05:58:33 UTC

as long as the government is for the people

2017-09-28 05:58:36 UTC

by the people

2017-09-28 05:58:42 UTC

it may work.

2017-09-28 05:58:44 UTC

I just told you that is impossible.

2017-09-28 05:59:02 UTC

how is it impossible

2017-09-28 05:59:20 UTC

take the german reich for example

2017-09-28 05:59:25 UTC

it was thriving

2017-09-28 05:59:41 UTC

until poor military decisions destroyed it

2017-09-28 05:59:42 UTC

That's authoritarian not democratic.

2017-09-28 05:59:49 UTC

In practice.

2017-09-28 05:59:55 UTC

yes but it is for the community

2017-09-28 06:00:03 UTC

Mind you, I think authoritarian is superior to democracy.

2017-09-28 06:00:29 UTC

I agree

2017-09-28 06:00:31 UTC

but

2017-09-28 06:00:43 UTC

the people should elect the leader

2017-09-28 06:00:46 UTC

But the people themselves do not have the ability to represent themselves on any higher level. Thus the need for enlightened authority.

2017-09-28 06:01:29 UTC

the people should elect the leader out of practicality

2017-09-28 06:01:37 UTC

because if not

2017-09-28 06:01:47 UTC

(fucked up on edit)

2017-09-28 06:01:57 UTC

violence?

2017-09-28 06:02:28 UTC

Well, for me there is no leader.

2017-09-28 06:02:53 UTC

But in this scenario any way is necessary.

2017-09-28 06:03:11 UTC

It just so happens that democracy is the path of least resistance but not necessarily so.

2017-09-28 06:03:24 UTC

but think about it.

2017-09-28 06:03:33 UTC

if the people elect a leader

2017-09-28 06:03:39 UTC

for a generation

2017-09-28 06:03:59 UTC

and after that leaders death

2017-09-28 06:04:18 UTC

the people could elect a new leader based on their issues

2017-09-28 06:04:38 UTC

not the previous generations issues

2017-09-28 06:06:43 UTC

According to what? After the supreme leader is in power, the whole game of how he got there changes. There is no going back. No 'backsies'.

2017-09-28 06:07:30 UTC

he can't go back correct

2017-09-28 06:07:49 UTC

that leader will serve the people for the rest of his life

2017-09-28 06:09:05 UTC

This is why Anarchism is best. No short term ends. Just one person and their commitment against dominance.

2017-09-28 06:09:14 UTC

yes

2017-09-28 06:09:23 UTC

but you must remember

2017-09-28 06:09:32 UTC

the people can not defend themselves

2017-09-28 06:09:37 UTC

not well atleast

2017-09-28 06:10:08 UTC

even now one of the main purposes of government is to defend the people

2017-09-28 06:11:55 UTC

Let me burst a bubble for you. What you have in your head about 'things' making people more powerful and being able to achieve things, are just imaginary power structures. What is really being done here but the re-arranging of duties in people's lives? This sacred thing you call 'government' is just made up of people pointed in a certain direction. We shouldn't limit ourselves to being controlled by this idea, but take it and realise it was the 'people' making this happen all along.

2017-09-28 06:12:46 UTC

I understand the government is made by the people

2017-09-28 06:13:00 UTC

it is made to defend and assist the people

2017-09-28 06:13:13 UTC

Defence of what?

2017-09-28 06:13:32 UTC

of the people inhabiting the land of the government

2017-09-28 06:13:54 UTC

imagine

2017-09-28 06:14:09 UTC

if there was an anarchist society

2017-09-28 06:14:13 UTC

so

2017-09-28 06:14:17 UTC

this means

2017-09-28 06:14:24 UTC

no coherent military

2017-09-28 06:14:37 UTC

no military funding or construction

2017-09-28 06:14:49 UTC

now

2017-09-28 06:14:59 UTC

if said society gets invaded

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