Nice find Graham!
This is perfectly said. The constant demands from statists on anarchists to plan out and explain how everything will function as they are used to it is beyond frustrating. People fear change.
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Especially when you don't tell them what the plan is or how things will function.
Have tried a million times. You pretend to be obtuse.
yeah, dawn defense will enslave those who don't pay right?
Instead of being shocked and disgusted and annoyed when people ask about how you will build roads what you need is a really good plan to do that that you all agree is truly voluntarist.
I think the annoyance comes from the notion that without forcing people to cooperate with something whether they want to or not, roads can't be built.
It's not on the people who don't want to be told what to do to come up with some perfect way for the rest of you to live. Anarchism would force you to figure things out on your own, instead of counting on some authoritative group of people to ensure you can "get around".
In places where they don't have functional governments and people build the roads on their own those same people also stop you frequently and demand random and varying amounts of payment under threat of violence.
It seems like a cop out to say that it is up to other people to figure out how your utopian vision is to be achieved. If you want to do away with the "authoritative group of people to ensure you can "get around" then you have to come up with a viable alternative.
I'm kind of glad you said this, because you've just confirmed something I was wondering. What makes you think it is a utopian vision? I don't believe there is any such thing. The idea of heaven is the closest we'll ever get to utopia.
We all know they things as they are aren't perfect, but wish for the perfect solution that will make everything nice. Do we then subconciously analyse every suggested solution put forward and dismiss it because it won't create the utopia we hope for?
I think the thing that most people seem to miss about the anarchist beliefs is that they don't want any more than freedom to make their own choices and if your choices are the state, then they aren't going to stand in the way of that, because that would be taking away your freedom of choice. However, as things stand, the state doesn't allow people to opt out. Anarchists are happy to pay for what they want and want to use. They aren't trying to just get the best of the state while not paying for it.
I think we want to see the suggested solutions so we can see if they would be better worse than what we have now. To do that they need to be clearly expressed. At this point it often seems like talking to gun control advocates who will say how we could do away with gun violence if only we would do away with guns, anarchists are firm in the belief that they could do away with government violence if they could just do away with governments. Neither seems to have a good plan to achieve that so people charge them with being unrealistic.
The whole quote is about that being 100% irrelevant to the fact that you have no right to dictate how another man lives you fucking termite.