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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
I can't quite see how the views that Jaysay put forward are anarchic.
I read his post and thought he was advocating a return to traditional values.......which was what Tony Blair advocated when he was campaigning in 1997...(making the punishment fit the crime, family values etc) Tany Blair was Labour wasn't he......Oh no, got that wrong he was new Labour....which was almost Conservative.
Sorry for the thread wander  |
Maybe I was twisting things a little, just for a goof. But all these "traditional" values people keep talking about are rooted in family (not in the sense that tories and Republicans mean it)) and community. And the Anarchy bit came in with the fact (sort of) that going along with this was a weak, distant, central government. When modern democracy came along friends, families, neighbours ... everyone ... delegated their power to representatives who then took it on themselves to become the new aristocracy. There have been numerous posts which have attacked how government deals with social problems, and often these suggest that government is doing a crappy job, much worse than communities and families could, and should, do for themselves. Your brother's trip to the cop shop and his time in the can is a fine example. When folks start to take back control of their lives, this is Anarchic ... it has nothing to do with riot or chaos.
I still would like some kind bottom ender to tell me the name of that store
