A Personal Thanks to Strike The Root
Per Bylund at Strike the Root - Mr. Bylund chimes in on STR's fifth anniversary. And a loud and melodic chime it is! Statists believe in forcing people to do what somebody else wants. Anarchists don't. They want slaves. We don't. Simple as that. [root]
But to be comfortable as anarchist, you need to identify there is no fixed point and there are no guarantees. Every argument you make is pro-choice and pro-freedom, it is not pro-system. You cannot ever say what will be, only what you think could be. At first, it seems you are pushed in the corner in each and every argument -- how do you defend not knowing? How can you proudly claim you don't know when everybody is ultimately out to get a detailed and warranted answer?
The problem, until you realize it, is of course that there are no answers about the future. You simply cannot tell. No one on earth or anywhere can tell. The only thing we can know about the future is that if statism prevails, there will someone saying what should be and having the power to make it so. And that that can't be right.
This is actually the most important point I can ever make: that it can't be right. This is my most fundamental moral conviction. No one is my master, and I am no one's master. No one is my slave and I am no one's slave. And this, the morality of being anarchist and thus respecting each and everybody's right to choose for themselves, is the fixed point of anarchism.
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