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12/30/09 Show Archive
Published: December 30, 2009Posted in: Kender, Moxie, Podcasts, THI Radio
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Is famous for being famous -- among her very small circle of imaginary friends. 
Anarchy is not chaos.
Anarchy is very simply “absence of government.”
For instance, there are no laws governing the specifics of how people cross crosswalks. I lived in New York City for many years and throngs of people merged into crosswalks all the time, pure anarchy (no government, no proscriptions, no prescriptions, no left-right lanes, “cross how you will”), and I never saw anyone bump into another person. Not once. People slid by each other brilliantly without help from government bureaucrats in other towns or in D.C.
The beautiful merging of people in a crosswalk is a model of anarchic society. People who believe in government, on any level, always speak from fear: “People will come and take your property or kill you!”
But of course, government is not the repository of ethics. *People* have ethics and customs already. Custom is, in fact, the antidote to the poison of government.
Government is merely a do-good facade, a front, for those who want unwarranted, and oftentimes unlimited power over others.
The dialog about anarchy on this show is fully — and I mean fully — uninformed. A several-year reading of libertarian literature from the last 100 years would bring you up to speed.
However, I would wager everything I’ve ever owned or will ever own or could imagine owning that (and this applies to both speakers):
You will never read Murray Rothbard’s “Man, Economy and State.”
You will never read Friedrich Hayek’s “The Constitution of Liberty.”
You will never read Robert Nozick’s “Anarchy, State, and Utopia.”
You will never read Milton Friedman’s “Free to Choose.”
You will never read Henry Hazlitt’s “The Foundations of Morality.”
You will never read Ludwig von Mises’ “Human Action.”
You will never read H.L. Mencken’s “Chrestomathy.”
I also believe that you cannot have read, and that you will never read, Robert Ardrey’s “Territorial Imperative,” in which he demonstrates conclusively that morality is biological, which is to say that it pre-dates humankind by several billion years, and, further, that the family/tribe (not the individual) is the first concern of all social animals, and, further, that the tribe takes care of its own without the help of government.
And that about sums it up.
Have a great day.
Jock
Jock, where did you get the idea that this show has ever addressed anarchy?
You must have us confused…we’re a humor show.
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