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You think being free is a right granted to you by a higher authority such as a government and that is the antithesis of Anarchism.
No, I don't do rights. You have "rights" until they are taken away by whoever gave them to you. I'm describing how society functions. It's an "is" claim not an "ought" claim. People organize in such and such fashion and every single society gives rise to hierarchies and authorities naturally. Anarchism as societal organization is a pipe dream. As I said, you can only be an anarchist by yourself (which is meaningless because anarchism presupposes you live in society).
Let's say hypothetically you are a republican, if a Democrat (I use these terms very loosely as does modern political discourse) president is elected that doesn't mean you are a Democrat. Anarchy is an ideology that postulates no government is legitimate nor does its authority derive from a legitimate source if that government does not have consent of the governed. Which can be revoked at any time by the governed, those the government rely upon to legitimize their authority. You can be whatever ideology you choose within whatever society you find yourself in. What you identify as does not dictate your surroundings. In my experience outside the ivory towers that guard unworldly unknowing Americans there is one law, either you have the gun or someone has a gun on you. That's why I choose to be an anarchist because the people who are called politicians have a sole interest of enriching themselves and they are clearly not very good at hiding it. We are smarter than those that make decisions for us and I don't know about you but that has been the case the majority of my life.
That's literally what democracy looks like on paper. The governed give their consent by voting for the people who govern. It can be revoked by voting against those people and if they don't comply, the voters can get their arms and drag them out by force. What does anarchy bring to the table except sounding cool to teenagers groing through their rebel phase and 20-something edgelords who red a bit of Nietzsche and nihilist degenerates like Bakunin and Proudhon (I bet 99.99% of self-proclaimed anarchists have never heard of those guys).
Besides I have a strong dislike for the word consent these days. It has strong SJW soycuck undertones. It sounds weak and effeminate like the feminized culture it comes from - hardly any ubermensch vibes to it. What do people, who have power over you care if you consent or not? No one will ask you for consent in an anarchy, are you kidding me? This is the same lolbert bs like the non-aggression principle. Why should I care for your principle in a society where no rules are in place?
Ideally, democracy is a system that uses the opinion of collective whereas anarchy is about individual choice.
That's where democracy fails. There's a lot of idiots who can be easily swayed by bright colors and catchy slogans
That's not revoking the consent of the governed or declaring the governments authority illegitimate. That's being complicit in the governments actions even if the person you voted for loses. You cannot vote your way out of tyranny, by voting at all you are legitimizing the governments authority. Why do you think there's gates around the White House? 🤣
That's just preposterous. As if the modern use of the word distorts it. The etymology of consent. Recorded in Middle English since circa 1225, borrowed from Old French consentir, from Latin cōnsentīre, present active infinitive of cōnsentiō (“to agree; to assent, consent”), itself from com- (“with”) + sentiō (“to feel”)
I think that's a personal problem believing words have feelings to them instead of explicit meanings. If you want to know where those feelings are coming from you only need to look in the mirror. I suppose someone whose relied upon the illusory safety the government provides would have trouble seeing the benefits of being in control of your own life. We are looking at it from vastly different perspectives. I'm looking at it as a soldier and you are looking at it as a threat to the comfortable bubble you've resided in your entire life.