Jolly Rotten
Anarchy in the UK?
Anarchy … what is it?
Let’s start with what it’s not, shall we?
It’s not a philosophy … it’s not a belief system … it’s not a political agenda or cause.
Anarchy is not lack of government or organisation or people running around doing whatever the hell they like with no constraint ¹.
Oh, I know there’s a lot of people who think that it is one of those things … I know that some people call themselves or others ‘anarchists’.
But these people are deluded … plain and simple.
Once upon a time there was this guy called … oh, I dunno … pick a name, any name.
Let’s say Genghis Khan
He bullied his neighbours into doing what he told them.
Then he and his neighbours bullied people in the next street into doing what he wanted.
Then they bullied people across their village into doing what he wanted.
Then they bullied another village into doing what he wanted.
They kept bullying people further and further afield … until Genghis Khan held sway over quite a lot of territory.
Then he legitimised himself as their ruler … and it became official: he was leader of the Mongols … and disposed of anyone who dared to oppose him.
His friends were allowed to tell people what to do as well.
His friends’ friends were, to a lesser degree, allowed to do the same.
And, slowly, a governmental system was imposed in place of the previous one … Laws were imposed.
And everybody lived happily ever after.
After a while, he got bored/greedy/a bee in his bonnet about something and started hankering for a bit more territory.
So he started conquering neighbouring territories.
Now, up until this point, neighbouring peoples didn’t much care what he did … as long as he didn’t do it to them.
So, they left him to it — nobody stopped him.
A while later, however, he was making just a bit too much of an impact upon other people’s lives … and they started thinking, worrying, talking …
Concerned party #1: “Here … have you heard about this Genghis Khan fellow?”
Concerned party #2: “Yeah … I don’t much like the look of that. What we gonna do if he comes our way?”
Concerned party #1: “I’ll tell you what we’re gonna do … we’re gonna stop him … that’s what we’re gonna do — if he comes near any one of us, we’ll band together and stop him dead in his tracks!”
And, sure enough, when enough people had talked to each other about it, some time later, they put a stop to him.
Several hundred years later, on a small, green island, off the coast of continental Europe … some bloke by the name of William, from Normandy, in France, beat the shit out of his neighbours and took control of their lands.
Just like Genghis Khan before him, he legitimised himself as their ruler and started ordering people about … and disposed of anyone who dared oppose him.
His friends were allowed to tell people what to do as well.
His friends’ friends were, to a lesser degree, allowed to do the same.
And, slowly, a governmental system was imposed in place of the previous one.
Several hundred years later, on that same small, green island, off the coast of continental Europe, some concerned individuals were talking amongst themselves …
The UK: “Here … have you heard about this Adolf Hitler fellow?”
Some fifty years, or so, later …
The USA: “Here … have you heard about this Saddam Hussein fellow?”
No-one is in charge of the way things work today any more than they ever were.
There are just some people who are prepared to ride, roughshod, over everyone else in order to get their way.
Last year it was Genghis Khan.
Last month it was William the Conquerer.
Last week it was Adolf Hitler.
Today it’s Trump/May and their cronies.
Tomorrow it’ll be someone else.
Anarchy is the way things work in the World … yesterday … today … tomorrow.
Change the names of the people.
Change the details of the laws and systems imposed upon us by thousands of years of societal development.
Change what part of the World you want to examine the process in.
Change the scale, go global and observe the behaviour of nations on the international stage.
And what will slowly, but surely, evolve out of your starting conditions is the society in which you and I are currently living.
The problem with anarchy isn’t that things will descend into chaos … it’s that it produces what we’ve got: these, the countries we live in today, are the product of anarchy … thousands of years of it — it is anarchy … in full effect.
Anarchy is a description of the way things work — in modern scientific parlance, it would be called chaos … it is no more than that.
So, the next time someone starts mouthing off about the dangers of anarchy, just ask them what they think they are living in now.
Get them to name the people who are in charge of the World … not in general terms, like America or ‘the corporations’, but individually, by name — and when they’ve mentioned Donald Trump and Bill Gates ask them why these people don’t control the whole World … and who will be in charge when they are dead and buried.
And as for people who call themselves anarchists … well, who isn’t?
I’m an anarchist, you’re an anarchist, they’re all anarchists too — we live in a one-nation world … we all come from Anarchy ².
Just what are these people trying to say … and why? — what on Earth do they think they’re on about?
Anarchy is not a philosophy.
It’s not a belief system.
It’s not a political agenda or cause.
It’s just the way things are … the way they work … a description of a process (chaos) … and has no wider application than that outside the minds of the confused, scared, deluded … and those who wish to use it to bully the rest of us into doing things their way.
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¹ Well, actually it is, but we’re not ready for that bit yet, so just hold onto that idea and keep reading … we’ll get there in a moment.
² Except for people from Lesbia ³.
³ They’re lesbians.
