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[Mauricio Pasquier Juan <mauricio AT pasquierjuan.com.ar>]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 07:44:09PM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote:
> 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.

that's why I'm in this list, because I'm interested in anarchism (and
community, which I think is part of it)

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