"Anarchy could never work. The world will plunge into chaos. Humans need someone to oversee them."
This is the same mantra I have been hearing over and over again for as long as I can remember. Now, I am not going to that some form of organization is not needed in order for society to function. This is rather irrelevant. The point here is that anarchy already exists. In fact, it has existed for as long as our species have created civilizations 6.000 year ago. It has been working just fine. Just not all of us get to enjoy it.
We often wonder why people sitting in government offices get to do whatever they want. We wonder how and why big corporations and government officials always seem to be in bed with one another. Yet, after all the shit we are witnessing taking place in front of our eyes, we just say "It is what it is, and we need the government to protect us".
Anarchy has been working for government and corporatist officials alike. They are doing whatever they want, propagating to the rest that we need their order in order to survive. The people whom we accuse of so many things are the proof that anarchy works. They are not bound by their own rules. They create the rules for the rest. They control how rules are perceived and they have convinced everyone else that they have to follow rules while themselves get to stand above of it all.
And we have accepted this. We understand that this is how it is done. We understand that this is how they get to be in control. Yet, the statists and anarchy skeptics alike are being intellectually dishonest. Based on their assumption, those who control everything we eat, drink, hear and see are living anarchically. Effectively the entire world is ruled by chaos. They guide humanity based on their own whims for their own benefit and they don't even follow their own rules. Why do we possibly want them to control us other than a primal tribal instinct of group survivorship? What is the argument other than fear?
Why do we claim to be civilized living in a world of order when in fact everything has always been structured under seeming order? A lion tears a zebra apart. The world is orderly from its own perspective. Every lion is doing it right?
A politician changes a single policy and we suddenly have to send our children to a public schools for 15 years. Everyone is doing it. This is how things are. This is order, right? Anything else is chaos since every parent will be able to do whatever they want with their child and that scares the shit out of us. It never crosses our minds that the anarchic folk on top control the school system and they do whatever they want. It never crosses around minds that many children under state rule become mercenaries killing other human being. We are just afraid that homeschooling mind hard a child because parents are....irresponsible.
This hypocritical narrative applies to everything that comes from the government. We assume that chaotic communal practices are orderly because many people follow them and that they are "controlled" and "regulated". Anything else becomes chaos. This is the reason why religion is so important to us.
The anarchic leaders on top that created these feel-good-and-fearful-stories give a sense of order to our lives. Same applies as with the presence of a government. We see some "references" from yet another anarchic authority that they have created and suddenly everything stops feeling "chaotic" and becomes "orderly".