In this short post I'd just like to share two short videos with you and make a point; anarchism can work. The freedom sought after by anarchists is a real possibility, just not in combination with capitalism.
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When in a Scandinavian country (I forget which one) the traffic lights on a very busy intersection, where previously a lot of accidents happened, were turned off, there were suddenly a lot less accidents. Also, participants in traffic suddenly approached the intersection with much more care and consideration and acted a lot friendlier to one another. Traffic lights and signs are there to guide our behavior, with the goal to make us safer and prevent accidents. This experiment however proves that all those rules just make us lazy; instead of using our own judgement, we delegate that judgement to some ruling agency.
Rules and laws make us morally lazy. We do things because we're allowed and we don't because we're forbidden, instead of letting our own judgement, our own morals speak. The Scandinavian intersection is but one, and a very graphic example of this but we all know it's true in all walks of life. It's in my opinion the main reason why the white-collar criminals get away with their schemes every time. In our subconscious minds we're remembered that they acted within the law, so we conclude that they must have been very smart individuals, not criminals. That is, until we realize that they, or their class make those rules and laws themselves...
Craziest intersection with no traffic light
So Anarchists are on the right track. They just need to adjust their views on property, trade, individualism and the individualistic nature of their freedom. What they truly seek is the applying of the Golden Rule to all of society, which is actually a call for a true and working democracy as it is consensus on large scales. And democracy cannot work in a plutocracy, freedom is lost in a plutocracy. And a plutocracy is the final station in any system that's based on the "free and unhindered" accumulation of private property. Any system that separates us in "haves" and "have-nots" is bound to end in a plutocracy.
Now watch the short videos in this post and tell me if you noticed how no one loses their temper. How there's a leader and a follower in all of us and we naturally seem to know when to act in which role; we patiently wait when it's our turn to wait, and we press on when it's our turn to press on. What you see here is live organic rule-making among ourselves. If these pictures worry or scare you, then maybe you're not yet ready for a truly free society. True freedom will demand from us a constant awareness of each other's presence as we navigate through the society of people we belong to, a constant applying of the Golden Rule every step of the way...
No Traffic Lights Vs Traffic Lights
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