At 08:25 AM 12/8/2004, Steve Furlong wrote:
I know what you mean, but (a) I didn't write what I meant, and (b) I don't think a true anarchy would be the proper environment for your anarcho-capitalism.
My complaints about Tim's anarchistic writings were about his desire to watch DC detonate, or to watch a rampage against useless eaters of one type or another, or the like.
If you think those are anarchist ideas, you've missed the main ideas about anarchy and anarcho-capitalism and such. Anarchism isn't about getting rid of the _current_ people in charge, it's about getting rid of _having_ people be in charge. On a cypherpunks-history track, Tim or Eric once proposed that the way to deal with slander in an uncensorable anonymous communication environment was to make sure that there was _always_ a wide current of anonymous slander against you going on, so you can dismiss any _real_ slander by saying it's just more of the same crap that some anonymous people always say about you, and that there may even be a market for it. (And Tim didn't even pay me to say that he's Detweiler's father...) ---- Bill Stewart bill.stewart@pobox.com