Michael Mitchell

Anarchy is competing governments. We say it's "no government", but governments always form naturally. Governments protect private property, protect it from being stolen by "foreign" governments, and then establish laws to protect it from being stolen from its own people by its own people. That's what war depends on. The ability to enforce your own sovereignty. Individuals can't do it, so we form governments, and just as people would steal each others' shit if laws didn't exist, so governments try to steal each others' shit because laws for governments don't exist. Everyone understands that's what government is for, that a "lawless" society doesn't work. Why don't we understand that a "lawless" earth doesn't? 🔥