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[Richard Lyons <richard AT the-place.net>]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 13:26:10 -0600, Quinn Wood wrote:

> What you are proposing is commonly referred to as "anarchy." I don't
> participate in OpenNIC discussions because I'm interested in anarchy,
> I participate in them because I'm interested in community. 

This reminds me of the distinction people used to draw a few decades ago
between anarchy and anarchism.  Anarchy the lack of order, and anarchism
the framework in which we create order without law.  That is to say the
desirable state of anarchism requires that individuals voluntarily opt
into co-operative states (with a small s). That is the kind of world I
wish for, one without conformity enforced by armies and police forces,
but with engaged individuals (or groups) consciously ensuring their
actions accord with those of others.

I've been idly following the twin monologues here and so far as I can
see this is what is missing to bring them both into a dialogue, a
conscious attempt to modify behaviour to fit the well-considered
existing pattern.

richard