16.7.1. Anarchy doesn't mean chaos and killing - As J. Bruce Dawson put it in a review of Linux in the September, 1994 "Byte," "It's anarchy at its best." + Ironically, crypto anarchy does admit the possibility (and hence probablility) of more contract killings as an ultimate enforcement mechanism for contracts otherwise unenforceable. - which is what is occurring in drug and other crime situaions: the parties cannot go to the police or courts for righting of wrongs, so they need to have the ultimate threat of death to enforce deals. It makes good sense from a reputation/game theory point of view. 16.7.2. Leftists can be anarchists, too - In fact, this tends to be the popular interpretation of anarchy. (Besides the bomb-throwing, anti-Tsar anarchists of the 19th century, and the bomb-throwing anarchists of the U.S. early this century.) + "Temporary Autonomous Zones" (TAZ) - Hakim Bey (pseudonym for ) - Mondo 2000, books, (check with Dave Mandl, who helps to publish them) 16.7.3. Anarchic development + Markets and emergent behaviors vs. planned development - principles of locality come into play (the local players know what they want and how much they'll pay for it) - central planners have "top-down" outlooks - Kevin Kelley's "Out of Control" (1994). Also, David Friedman's "Technologies of Freedom." - An example I heard about recently was Carroll College, in Wisconsin. Instead of building pathways and sidewalks across the newly-constructed grounds, the ground was left bare. After some time, the "emergent pathways" chosen by students and faculty were then turned into paved pathways, neatly solving the problem of people not using the "planned" pathways. I submit that much of life works this way. So does the Net (the "information footpaths"?). - anarchies are much more common than most people think...personal relationships, choices in life, etc. 16.7.4. The world financial system is a good example: beyond the reach of any single government, even the U.S. New World Order, money moves and flows as doubts and concerns appear. Statist governments are powerless to stop the devaluation of their currencies as investors move their assets (even slight moves can have large marginal effects). - "anarchy" is not a term most would apply, but it's an anarchy in the sense of there being no rulers ("an arch"), no central command structure.
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