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This neatly illustrates why I'm an anarchist - because institutionalized authority has made it such that the United States - a nation of 340 million people - is engaged in overtly destructive and internationally criminal violence and brutality not because the people have demanded it or even desired it, but because a handful of fucking psychopathic pieces of shit have managed to fight and claw and wheedle and lie their ways into positions from which they have the authority to make it so.
And that is, by any reasonable measure, insane.
Any system that allows for such a thing rather obviously should not exist. And that the United States, with its intricate system of checks and balances and its guaranteed freedoms and its strictly mandated adherence to the rule of law could reach this point clearly demonstrates that the problem is not how authority is institutionalized but merely if it is. If it is, then it can be, and sooner or later will be, abused for the questionable benefit of a few and to the detriment of all the rest of the world.
So it quite simply cannot be institutionalized. That's the only sane approach.
So all that's left is to wait for humanity to grow the fuck up - to evolve psychologically, sociologically and philosophically to the point that they no longer have or feel a need to have some institutional mommy and daddy to tell them how to and how not to behave.
Maybe in another few centuries...
Yes, I would also prefer we become a land of 10,000 warlords.
That's not anarchism at all.
And who's going to tell that to the warlords?
Anyone who isn't trying to live out a Mad Max wet dream
That's a good way to get yourself killed by said warlords.
I think that's a conversation best led by the most popular warlord, he can get all the other warlords to understand.
So no one gets confused, we'll give that warlord the title of King.
Thanks I guess for providing an example of one of the ways in which humanity needs to grow the fuck up - reach a point at which we generally actually think about things that people actually say rather than just being bitter slaves to our preconceptions and prejudices.
Hopefully your kids will do a better job of it. Or maybe their kids.