My Recommendation to the Middle East: ANARCHY

Please see my comment entitled "Further to Government" at the bottom of the following URL:

http://tinyurl.com/n7vrd


In response to what I wrote above someone from Israel responded:

Quote: "Anarchy is what's going on right now in Gaza…"

My response: Thank you for giving me the opportunity to elucidate my position.
No, what is happening now is anything but Anarchy. They have a government. We have a government. Every country in the world has a government - especially those who are fomenting the conflict in this area and making a fortune on it.

Quote: "…where armed groups of thugs force their wishes on an innocent civilian population, attack the neighboring country out of forgotten "ideals", and wage open war with each other-- the Palestinians."

My response: I'd say that describes the US and the EU nations to a T.

Quote: "armed groups of thugs force their wishes on an innocent civilian population" –

My response: I'd say that sounds like our government vis-à-vis not only the Palestinians, but Israelis too. Have you forgotten the "disengagement"?"

How about soldiers on reserve duty who have been used to knock on doors in the middle of the night to extract payment for bounced checks from people who can't make their incomes stretch to cover their expenses in peaceful times? My B-I-L was made to do it and it sickened him. That is NOT why he was supposed to be in reserve service. Or don't you know about that?

Quote: ”Anarchy is Hizballah embroiling Lebanon in a war with its neighbor to the south for no good reason. "

My response: "Hizbullah has a leadership who keep them on a very tight rein at that."
Quote: "Is this the kind of Middle East you want?"

My response: No, that is why governments need to be dissolved.

Quote: "I know this isn't the kind of anarchy that the anarchist philosophers envisioned-- but it's the anarchy we have at this point in human development (or lack thereof). Humanity will have to go a long way down the road of evolution before it's ready for non-government. Please accept the idea that anarchy as a working system is an idea whose time has not yet come, and don't spout nonsense."

My response: Now you are beginning to accede the truth. We are laying the groundwork of a MENTAL and EMOTIONAL revolution that will allow a stateless condition based on free trade exist. It will take hundreds of years perhaps. But we must lay the groundwork. My task is to give people an inkling of what life could be like, to get them to transcend what they have been made to believe exists a priori.

Be positive. People lived for millennia under the absolute tyrannies of monarchs and organized religions. From the time of the French and American Revolutions until the flowering of Anarchist thought was a matter of a mere few years: William Godwin (1756-1836) was the founder of philosophical anarchism. In his An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) he argued that government is a corrupting force in society, perpetuating dependence and ignorance, but that it will be rendered increasingly unnecessary and powerless by the gradual spread of knowledge.

and then

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (January 15, 1809 – January 19, 1865) wrote "What is Property?" published in 1840. We won't need to wait millennia to get to the next evolutionary stage.

But the work of laying the groundwork has to be done. People have to be made to know that they are dieing and suffering for naught. Worse, they are dieing and suffering in order to make others rich. When I think that the people who are responsible for the sailors who died on the battleship were sailing on their yachts gleeful that business was proceeding so nicely I get livid.

This is the time to begin to sow the seeds of Anarchy in Israel. The country must not return to the status quo after this war. We must have made some internal advance or all that we are doing externally is nothing but a bloodletting fest. You describe my thinking as "nonsense". You have been brainwashed to think that being adult, mature and "real" is being harnessed as a worker. Kill that cop in your head.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat (Safed), Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com