I still find it hard to imagine people managing to live without laws and cooperatively without smaller social structures to give them a structure of unwritten or unspoken rules instead of laws that they would stick to, such as not stealing from one another or killing one another. I have never imagined anarchism in a huge community or nation - just not sure how it would work. I suppose that's because I've only read as far as anarchists who envisaged small communities. My own experience of people is that they tend to lack empathy for most people even within their own families, yet alone people from other backgrounds. Not all people of course, but most. London is a very nice place to live - only it is hard in England to find anywhere without people or buildings in sight. Perhaps it is just a matter of taste, but it would be nice to have areas of wilderness and forests and other forms of life in abundance, not just houses and people everywhere. Also there are lots of violent and scary people about, but not just in London - villages seem to have their share of them too, and smaller towns in England seem to have more. I suppose I have often put violence and people being horrible down to urban alienation, but then you get horrible people in villages too. I find it hard to believe people could manage without laws to keep such people in some kind of check, although I would like to think that in happier societies people would be happier so less prone to violence.
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Date: 2009-12-02 11:37 pm (UTC)My own experience of people is that they tend to lack empathy for most people even within their own families, yet alone people from other backgrounds. Not all people of course, but most.
London is a very nice place to live - only it is hard in England to find anywhere without people or buildings in sight. Perhaps it is just a matter of taste, but it would be nice to have areas of wilderness and forests and other forms of life in abundance, not just houses and people everywhere.
Also there are lots of violent and scary people about, but not just in London - villages seem to have their share of them too, and smaller towns in England seem to have more. I suppose I have often put violence and people being horrible down to urban alienation, but then you get horrible people in villages too. I find it hard to believe people could manage without laws to keep such people in some kind of check, although I would like to think that in happier societies people would be happier so less prone to violence.