Anarchy is an interesting concept. It doesn't have to be a complete lack of federal power, as Universal Mind said in another thread if federal powers just disappeared every gang out there would grab their guns and go on a power rush. I don't know much about the subject myself, but ideas presented in these videos intrigue me.





As for the state of the world, I tend to agree with you. Our commercial culture in general is really starting to make me sick and the fact that I'm a 100% manufactured product of it doesn't help at all. I often question why we need all this. I guess on one hand its just a natural evolution of our human tendency to overpopulate. I've heard that without all this federal/commercial culture we can't sustain nearly this many people on Earth.

And what are we even moving towards? The only difference I see between us and cavemen is the fact that we live longer, get less exercise, and have inhibitions. And that we want to try to 'figure out' the universe (as though there's some magic linguistic dogma out there that can explain every intricacy of it). I'd rather just live half a life without the inhibitions. Fearing death is just absurd.

Still, I'm optimistic though. My friends and I often joke about starting an anarchist commune here in Vermont somewhere, maybe if we're lucky one day it'll actually happen . Try not to let the negativity get to you. Ever since the human ego came into its own things have been like this to some degree. Part of overcoming it is learning to accept the good and the bad for the facts they are, Taoist style. Any negative reactions is just that cultured ego talking .