"Word" Of the Subgenius...

[Bill Stewart]

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...)



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