I’ve heard a lot, a LOT, of excuses and reasons and rationalizations as to why Anarchism wouldn’t work. Everything from “gangs would take over” to “corporations would take over” to “people are too stupid to be free” to “who will feed the poor”, and the always popular, “but what about the roads?” But I heard/read a new one the other day that rendered me speechless…

I was told that Anarchy wouldn’t work because it’s “too complicated”.

“Too complicated”…. I sat there staring at that phrase for several minutes with my mouth agape and eye twitching. My fingers hovered over the keyboard awaiting a signal from my brain to respond, but none came. I couldn’t respond. My mind had gone blank in the face of this justification for Statism; this utterly ridiculous statement that somehow seemed logical in their disfigured and unthinking mind. This twisted and warped belief that in someway made sense to them had wiped my mind of all cognitive ability to function.

Sadly, by the time I shook off this illogical left-hook the thread had turned into a moshpit of appeals to authority and straw man fallacies with ad hominem‘s being tossed around like beads at Mardi Gras. I had lost the opportunity to educate and inform, or at least hopefully instigate some thought, as to how misinformed and illogical their opinion was.

Had I had the opportunity to respond I would have told them that Anarchy is as uncomplicated as things get. It is the simplest and most ordered way of living.

The dictionary defines it as “without rulers” but I believe that it can be summed up quite nicely as simply the absence of violation of consent. That’s it. I can’t say it any simpler than that. Anarchy is the freedom to choose for oneself. It’s not complicated at all. It’s actually rather simple.

It is respect, or at least courtesy, for your fellow man. It is respect for the freedoms and choices of others. It is the absence of force upon others and is the purest translation of “Don’t Tread On Me”. It is the absence of financial slavery (taxation, fiat currency, forced debt). It is the absence of caging people for victimless crimes. It is the absence of unjust war. It is the absence of sanctioned oppression and violating the liberty of others. Anarchy couldn’t be simpler.

Government cannot exist without oppression, theft, force. It cannot exist without suppressing people’s liberty. It cannot exist without taxation (theft). It cannot without point guns at people to force compliance. The federal tax code is almost 75,000 pages long! ObamaCare alone created more than 20,000 pages of regulations for the healthcare and health insurance industries! We have thousands of new laws going into effect every year nationwide. We pay taxes to the city, county, state, federal government, social security before we even get our paychecks. We have laws regulating the length, green-ness, and type of grass in our front yards. And heaven forbid you wanna put a garden in your front yard! The government sends men with guns to your home if they even THINK you might have broken one of their laws. I could go on and on and on and on here but i’ve made my point. Literally every aspect of our lives are regulated in some way by government.

If anything is “too complicated”, it’s government not anarchy.