essay

By: Jay Dyer

The purpose of this essay is to convince anarchists that achieving a stateless society may require us to adopt the personal characteristics of conformity and submission to hierarchy. It may require us to adopt these characteristics and voluntarily submit ourselves to a new hierarchical, bureaucratic organization, one whose entire reason for being would be to fight the state.

What will the liberty movement look like in 100 years? That is a question I think about a lot, and frequently ask my guests on the Anarchist Standard podcast. It’s a question which, because it involves the future, cannot be answered with certainty. And it is one particularly relevant for this blog.

A little inculcation of my friend John Steppling’s blog, over here, now, read, please:
The House of Tards
The very idea of language, of putting that raging and pulsating syntax and grammar to work, with precision and poetry, well, this is a time of fifty book wonders, folks who write nothing, really, pick your topic, and those I am feeling the old stomach turning on the most are tied to climate change, faux social justice, renewable energy, all the lies about a new green economy, a la the corporate model.