ANARCHY IS…

In response to someone who said that Anarchy is nothing other than a license to murder and plunder with impunity:

We Anarchists are fully aware of the fact that only a few people are ready for this responsibility and freedom and most are not.

How do we separate the one from the other?

Simple - from their reactions to the idea of Anarchy.

Those who are ready see the beauty and potential for human development and achievement inherent in it. They are drawn to the idea at once. They see emancipation as the opportunity to do great things that are not possible now. They react with love for Humankind.

Those who are not ready for Anarchy see only destruction and chaos. They cannot see the opportunity to create beautiful forms that Anarchy permits. To them freedom means license to do harm. They react with fear of Humankind.

Let's consider the example of sexual attraction in order to understand the concept of preparedness.

Prepubescent boys, at the age of 10 or 11 who are neither emotionally nor physically ready for sexual and intimate emotional relations, find girls the most icky thing around. Ugh. Yuck.

Two or three years later they are in a state of confusion about girls. At this stage they are physically capable of having sex, but are not emotionally able to engage in intimacy.

Two, three or four years later they think that young women are just about the most desirable creatures ever to grace the universe. At this stage, not only can they have sex physically, they begin to be able to fall in love or at least be infatuated by the opposite sex.

We are not attracted to that which is the source of life, be it sex or a model of society that allows us optimal expression of our potential, until we are ready.

So it is with Anarchism.

I address my posts to those who are ready. They know who they are and we will know who they are.

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