the actual political spectrum.
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That's what hollywood wants you to think
No joke they got people so scared of a word they won't even look into it themselves!
Can you demonstrate the opposite? I'd love some examples.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania
I know about it.
So the adults had to step in. That's a degenerate drug and crime ridden ghetto, not an anarchy. You can find lots of similar "freetowns" in the third world shitholes.
Not quite.
The gangsters aren't actually part of the community, they've just been taking advantage of the situation for decades. They've been tolerated because they existed in a sort of grey area, and the cannabis trade represented some sort of rebellious attitude towards the establishment, plus it attracted a lot of tourists, and tourist money, to the local businesses.
However in recent years all the immigrant gangsters have been playing shoot-em-up and ruining things for everyone (go figure), and so the community came together and decided - by unanimous vote - to collaborate with the authorities to eliminate the trade altogether.
In absolutely simplistic terms, I do for me and mine, you do for you and yours, and if we can all agree on what and how, then we do it together.
The whole Mad Max thing is a completely bastardized fantasy and has nothing to do with political anarchy.
It does mean you don't get a lot of this modern "progress for the sake of progress," but if you look at where that has got us, maybe it's not such a bad thing.
What happens when we don't agree on something important for both of us?
If I can't convince you it's important, then either it really isn't - i.e. it's selfishly important - or I need to improve my rationale and reason, and find a better argument and more common ground. And then we try again.
I understand you want to steer the argument towards "when do we just pull out our guns and shoot each other?" but we don't, because that's degeneracy, not anarchy.
True anarchy is not a state of being, it's an ideal to strive for. Of course people are going to end up disagreeing, but then the educated and idealistic rationality and reason of the community needs to stand together, and pull towards the ideal, not devolve into factions fighting over right and wrong. Resolve conflicts with debate, and realize we can't ever agree on everything, but so long as we agree on something, we have grounds for working together.