Jim Choate wrote:
Yes you have, the 'government' are the poeple. This schizo view of government as if it was some stand alone entity that decends from the heavens to enslave mankind is what is bullshit.
"Let's get rid of the government."
"Ok, who do we shoot first?"
This describes the fundamental flaw of anarchy.
I disagree. "the government" is a term for more than the people, even for more than the people making up "the government". lumb them all into a football stadium and you don't have a government - just a bunch of people. there's an organizational structure that makes up "the government", and in most western countries it's stronger than the people - you can basically exchange them all without too much of a change to "the government" (as proven after every election). but change the structure while retaining the people and you end up with something completely different (e.g. germany's transition from the weimar republic to the third reich). in that sense "let's get rid of the government" *can* be interpreted as "let's tear down these structures". it not always *is* meant that way, but it *can*. and of course the opinions about what to replace it with differ a lot. but most of those who are anti-government don't so much say "let's kill president X or minister Y" as rather "the voting system is crap" or "government is bought by the big corporations" or "there should be no authority at all" or something to that effect, which is definitely a *structural* as opposed to a *personal* complaint.