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Re: Is No Government Possible? -
August 31st 2010, 10:43 AM
Do you mean specifically no federal government? Or no official government of any kind? The two are rather different scenarios. With only the federal government absent things would be as they were then; state governments. In the extreme case I suppose the US might simply become 50 separate countries. I think that would be at least sustainable, though I can imagine that problems would crop up.
Actual anarchy though is a very different animal. Frosty's ideal of hired guns as peacekeepers is wishful thinking at best and downright medieval in reality. Without government there is no law, not in the sense in which we think of it. Either wealth or weapons would decide who dictates the terms of everyday life; which you find more objectionable is probably a matter of taste. A simple understanding of game theory should be enough to convince anyone that anarchy is even more flawed an ideal than communism.
The atoms that make up you and me were born in the hearts of suns many times greater than ours and in time our atoms will return once again to reside amongst the stars. Life is but an idle dalliance of the cosmos, frail, and soon forgotten. We have been set adrift in an ocean whose tides we are only beginning to comprehend, and with that maturity has come the realization that we are, at least for now, alone. In that loneliness, it falls to us to shine as brightly as the stars from which we came.
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