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The end of the second, and the entire third, lines, just jumped out at me as perfectly metered, as I was saying them. The rest of the poem really only completes the thought, though I think it was necessary to place blame, and I feel like I've done so pretty accurately.
Anapestic tetrameter, ABABAB rhyme scheme.
Anapestic tetrameter, ABABAB rhyme scheme.
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No, it doesn't. Anti-state mentality can at most throw a tantrum-- and while that's probably suited to the affect of folks it for whom it becomes a habitual/political stance, it can't protect the rights of minorities-- it certainly can't do shit for the innumerable GLBT folks in CA and elsewhere being denied all sorts of rights and benefits they merit.
Whereas a State can ensure their liberties-- sooner or, regrettably in some cases, later. Libertarians and other anarchists' only real comment on this is a retreat to a no-perfect-solution fallacy: See! The system is imperfect! So let's blow it up!
The anti-state mentality of conventional U.S. anarchism hasn't anything to offer anybody besides edginess.
I also advocate forcing values on others. Forcing values on others can be, objectively, a valuable and worthwhile thing to do. E.g.: try murdering people-- even those who aren't my relatives, in my presence sometime. I have these values that say: the lives of sentient beings are valuable and worth preserving, at significant risk to myself, against unwarranted violence. In most cases where you don't massively outgun me or the person you're going after isnt' a bigger threat than you, I'll smack you down. You know. Forcibly. Because of my values.
The difference between individuals is not whether they want to force their values on others (which they inevitably do even just by existing, as a competitor or collaborator, in somebody else's presence-- that is to say, by their very existence, they are forcibly bringing the weight of their values to bear on others).
Since everybody's unavoidably doing so, the option is not to try not to force values on others, but to choose the optimal values. Human potential and the rest of reality being what they are, that optimum set of values is heavily influenced by the productivity inherent in large-scale cooperation. Which is why social democratic values are among the best approximations of optimal values to date. And they overwhelm what U.S. anarchists have to offer.
Some beliefs and values are better than others.
Whereas a State can ensure their liberties-- sooner or, regrettably in some cases, later. Libertarians and other anarchists' only real comment on this is a retreat to a no-perfect-solution fallacy: See! The system is imperfect! So let's blow it up!
The anti-state mentality of conventional U.S. anarchism hasn't anything to offer anybody besides edginess.
I also advocate forcing values on others. Forcing values on others can be, objectively, a valuable and worthwhile thing to do. E.g.: try murdering people-- even those who aren't my relatives, in my presence sometime. I have these values that say: the lives of sentient beings are valuable and worth preserving, at significant risk to myself, against unwarranted violence. In most cases where you don't massively outgun me or the person you're going after isnt' a bigger threat than you, I'll smack you down. You know. Forcibly. Because of my values.
The difference between individuals is not whether they want to force their values on others (which they inevitably do even just by existing, as a competitor or collaborator, in somebody else's presence-- that is to say, by their very existence, they are forcibly bringing the weight of their values to bear on others).
Since everybody's unavoidably doing so, the option is not to try not to force values on others, but to choose the optimal values. Human potential and the rest of reality being what they are, that optimum set of values is heavily influenced by the productivity inherent in large-scale cooperation. Which is why social democratic values are among the best approximations of optimal values to date. And they overwhelm what U.S. anarchists have to offer.
Some beliefs and values are better than others.
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