Friday, January 23, 2009

Anarchy

Say anarchy and what comes to mind is the bearded bomb-thrower. Strictly speaking, anarchy simply means no government. People will equite "no government" with chaos, missing the point that most society has nothing to do with government. Harder to grasp is the fact that with no government we get spontaneous order. We saw much spontaneous order during the storms last holidays, and the private rescue efforts/first responders to the jet-in-the-river a week of so ago. Here is an article comparing Swiss and British versions of anarchy.


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