16.7.1. Anarchy doesn't mean chaos and killing
- As J. Bruce Dawson put it in a review of Linux in the
September, 1994 "Byte," "It's anarchy at its best."
+ Ironically, crypto anarchy does admit the possibility (and
hence probablility) of more contract killings as an
ultimate enforcement mechanism for contracts otherwise
unenforceable.
- which is what is occurring in drug and other crime
situaions: the parties cannot go to the police or courts
for righting of wrongs, so they need to have the ultimate
threat of death to enforce deals. It makes good sense
from a reputation/game theory point of view.
16.7.2. Leftists can be anarchists, too
- In fact, this tends to be the popular interpretation of
anarchy. (Besides the bomb-throwing, anti-Tsar anarchists
of the 19th century, and the bomb-throwing anarchists of
the U.S. early this century.)
+ "Temporary Autonomous Zones" (TAZ)
- Hakim Bey (pseudonym for )
- Mondo 2000, books, (check with Dave Mandl, who helps to
publish them)
16.7.3. Anarchic development
+ Markets and emergent behaviors vs. planned development
- principles of locality come into play (the local players
know what they want and how much they'll pay for it)
- central planners have "top-down" outlooks
- Kevin Kelley's "Out of Control" (1994). Also, David
Friedman's "Technologies of Freedom."
- An example I heard about recently was Carroll College, in
Wisconsin. Instead of building pathways and sidewalks
across the newly-constructed grounds, the ground was left
bare. After some time, the "emergent pathways" chosen by
students and faculty were then turned into paved pathways,
neatly solving the problem of people not using the
"planned" pathways. I submit that much of life works this
way. So does the Net (the "information footpaths"?).
- anarchies are much more common than most people
think...personal relationships, choices in life, etc.
16.7.4. The world financial system is a good example: beyond the
reach of any single government, even the U.S. New World
Order, money moves and flows as doubts and concerns appear.
Statist governments are powerless to stop the devaluation of
their currencies as investors move their assets (even slight
moves can have large marginal effects).
- "anarchy" is not a term most would apply, but it's an
anarchy in the sense of there being no rulers ("an arch"),
no central command structure.
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