Re: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the (fwd)

Jim Choate wrote:

At least citizens can change the laws under a democracy. Under an anarcho-whatever it is strictly lump it or like it unless you're willing to fund a bigger gun.

Under an "anarcho-whatever" people are left to their own devices. This leaves them free to do anything, including institute governments, pass laws, form unions, inject themselves with battery acid, shoot everyone wearing glasses, and climb towers to pick off passers-by with a high-velocity rifle. What people on both extremes seem to miss is that the world is already, and always has been, an anarchy; the experiment is ongoing, and so far "all of the above" is the outcome. Cheers, Frank O'Dwyer.