Anarchie!

Tomorrow, I must give a speech in some sort of important competition for my speech and debate team. It's on ANARCHY! Want to read? Well, here:

Over five centuries ago, a voyager named Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and discovered North America to the Eastern World. What he found was a land divided into many separated tribes. From what history can tell us, these Native Americans managed to coexist and survive successfully. None were oppressed by state laws, or by their neighboring societies. This is anarchy. This is autonomy.

Regrettably, the colonizing forces did not observe the relationships of tribes and consider the Native government; instead they continued invading with bitter and intolerant hearts, in the name of freedom, independence, and religious ‘right.’ Soon, the autonomous world was put under control by a series of small state governments. As time progressed, bloody revolutions and civil struggles formed the land we call the United States of America. The concept of anarchy was to be long forgotten, as the tribes began descending and dying.

Anarchy is a widely misunderstood concept, and is unfairly ridiculed by anyone who does not declare themselves as an anarchist.

Anarchy is not a large group of punk rockers hitting each other in the face with baseball bats, nor is it absolute chaos or utter destruction. Anarchy is not necessarily complete lawlessness, and should not just be another trend among teenage “rebels.” Anarchy is the decentralization of government, removal of formalized authority, and the value of individual thought. Above all, it is the autonomous self-rule and self-reliance.
Anarchy is presented in various forms, with different economic and social goals. Each idea holds a different title: from anarcho-syndicalism, a labor based movement, to anarcho-naturism, focusing on nature and self reliance.

With different goals applied to the concept of anarchy, we are capable of choosing what suits our ideals best.
The government we live under today is shrouded in uncertainty and controversy and corruption, and the citizens are noticing. Is this the type of government any citizen should be comfortable trusting? The United States Government is no stranger to split decisions or dissatisfied minorities. In the past decade, there has not been a single citizen who has not turned down a right for the nation’s benefit. Whether it is abortion, death penalty, or euthanasia, not every person in the state you live in will agree, let alone in your neighborhoods or households. The problem is that with all these issues we are given as a whole, the more prevalent disagreements will become.

Anarchy is the idea that a large population will descend into smaller groups, and form smaller societies with people who share similar moral values.

Morality itself is a human construct, telling us how to define “good” and how to define “bad.” We need to take into consideration that not all of us grew up in safe neighborhoods, came from wholesome families, and were growing up with conscientious friends. We have all learned our morality from different situations, and although we can’t agree completely, we can agree with certain values. Anarchy gives us the opportunity to create the communities where we can agree on those principles.

The advantage is quite simple; an example of this is an issue that is presented in our world today. This is the issue on the use of illegal drugs. Many, if not most individuals have qualms regarding drugs. Anarchy presents to us the possibility to remove drugs, alcohol, and various illicit substances from our lives completely.
Preventing drug abuse is much easier if your people do not oppose your goal, and will accommodate your standards.

With the knowledge that your society consists of people you can trust and correspond with, it also allows for the redistribution of labor.

Today, our labor has often reached a point where the working class will sit at a desk, pushing pencils and writing reports for products that the employee may not even use or understand how to use. Human beings were not meant to sit at a computer, pressing numbers into spreadsheets and expecting results. This is not work, this is a job for a drone. The redistribution of labor can change how we live today.

We can leave our offices and free the wage slaves, we can neglect all the skills we use that never benefit us. By removing the need for money through servicing yourself, you won’t have to spend your life paying off your mortgage, when you can simply construct your home. By reverting to less work, the more manageable the world becomes. The indigenous tribes of the world won’t worry about mutually assured destruction or global warming; the tribes could have simply just existed, and remained another animal on this planet.

Our world today is too safe, and the further we shelter ourselves, the more we fear the world around us. Too often will we walk into our schools or jobs on a rainy day and see the “Caution: Wet Floor” sign. Any human who has the ability to work in an office should have the common sense to realize that rain makes the ground wet. Unfortunately, a person will slip, and soon sue whoever is responsible, as if money would compensate for lack of common sense. We have choking hazard signs on small toys and warning labels on our coffee.

This is disappointing, especially when we boast that we are members of the Information Age, yet we might just forget that bridges are “slippery when wet.”

Anarchy tells us otherwise. Anarchy is considered “lawlessness,” and this is brilliant because without laws, we are capable of thinking for ourselves. Without being told of what is “right” and “wrong,” we are able to make decisions, with our autonomy. If we fail, we learn from our mistakes. Because of laws, fear grows from making mistakes, and through that fear, we will avoid learning if it endangers our social situation in any possible way. No human being should be afraid to learn.

What we have learned, but yet to realize, is that one law cannot serve the entire populace. No law could ever support rich estate owners and the “equal” citizens who struggle everyday in the ghetto. It is time we realize that our government cannot govern us. True freedom comes from oneself; nothing is capable of controlling the animal in man. No fallacy can let the government strip you of your humanity and take your freedom. No one in a special uniform can handcuff you and make you the property of their state. Passing through “nations” and “civilizations” should not change how we live: no arbitrary border, a line in the sand, should change how we dictate our lives. No person is controlled by the government, only afraid to break away from the government.

We must smash the state, for it confines our freedom and steals our personal liberties. It is time we question the laws, and need not suppress ourselves by the constraints of our elder’s society. It is time we start over, once again, and live our lives without the complication of a government we do not know and the strangers we cannot trust. We must live in the safety of those who we know, not those we elect. For a world of understanding and equality, we must tear down the walls instead of locking up the doors.