Anarchist Utopia
The world is in turmoil. Wars are fought
solely for economic gain, children are
shooting their fellow classmates,
people are starving, and people are dying. But
why is this happening? Why do
these things have to happen? Well, they don’t
have to happen. This is all a
result of corrupt governments caring for nothing
but money. These governments
are sending their own citizens to war, and they do
not care who gets killed,
just which side wins. This is unjust and must not
continue. People think
about these things, but do nothing about them, and as the
saying goes,
silence is consent. By not doing anything about this we allow these
things to
continue. We allow our governments to murder our family, our friends,
and
even ourselves. This is why I propose that we begin a new order in which
we
abandon governments altogether and instate an anarchist system in which
all men,
women, and children are equal, but in their own way different and
unique.
Everyone’s worth is the same, but their thoughts are different.
And this is
the ideal society. In order for there to be a true utopia, we
need to eliminate
a few things. One is government, for as long as there is
somebody above us in
social status, we can never be truly equal and free.
Next are laws made by the
common man that not everybody agrees with, for if
there are laws that not
everybody agrees with, then there is oppression. And
lastly, is a monetary
system, because as they say, money is the root of all
evil. The way that we
maintain order in such a society is through a principle
called Altruism, which
is a principle that states that all people care for
each other. Without such a
principle, society cannot maintain order, and keep
in mind that anarchy is not
synonymous with chaos. Anarchy is lack of
government, where as chaos is lack of
order. Anyway, the reason we need
altruism is because, instead of laws, the way
that we determine what is right
and what is wrong is by determining a persons
inherent rights. If a person
then violates another person’s rights, then that
is wrong, and society as a
whole punishes that person fittingly. The way that
this works is that it’s
based on the principal of the social contract. The
social contract theory
states that in order to have protection from a society,
you must give up some
of your liberties. In this case, the liberties that you
would have to give up
are the liberties to violate the rights of others, and to
intentionally rise
in power. These rules are made so as to "weed" out all
those who would
purposely disrupt the society and dissolve it and also to
maintain order in
such a system. This also makes it so that only the good
natured people would
enter. Remember, this society is strictly a voluntary
society. No one has to
enter if they don’t want to and that’s one of the
best things about the
anarchist utopia, is that involvement is entirely
voluntary! An education
system would be non-existent. Instead of children going
to school, each
generation is taught by the previous generation. This has been
shown to work
in indigenous tribes. In the ideal society, where the
aforementioned
principles are taught, people don’t need to work in order to
buy material
possessions. Instead, the sole motivation to work is to gather
the
necessities of life (i.e. water, food, shelter, etc...) and each
generation
would teach what is needed to be known in order to get these
things. And that is
why education is not necessary in this society. In this
society, conflict would
be handled in a proper manner, depending on the
conflict. For example, if the
conflict is about a difference in ideas, the
conflict would be settled in a
debate-like manner with an audience (whether
it be one, or many) that decides
who’s right. But if the conflict gets to the
point of violence, then further
action is taken by the society in the form of
a tribunal in which the entire
society is gathered by either physical means,
or through the media, and the
society votes as to if the defendant is guilty
or innocent and how to punish
him/her. The economic system, as I briefly
touched on earlier, will be a true
socialistic economy. The monetary system
will be abolished and all trade will be
done only for necessities. Any luxury
item that an individual may want would be
found outside of the society and my
be bought through trade. Equality would be
achieved in a manner that is not
oppressive. We allow ourselves to be treated
equally. No person’s life is
worth more than another. But, all people are
recognized as being different
and unique in their own way. By having differences
in society, we can make
strides to make society better. As you may have noticed
by now, not very many
people would be able to live in the utopia. The more
people that live in a
certain area, the more difficult it would be to maintain
order. That is why
standards must be high to let people into this society. It
will not be all
upper class people. It would have a wide variety of
personalities and
cultures so as to have a large diversity. But these people
have to accept the
social contract to its’ fullest extent. That is the main
acceptance
criterion, is the acceptance of the social contract that is presented
to
them. Although there is no exact number as to how many people would live
in
this society, all I can tell you is that a very small group of people
would live
there. Diversity is welcome in this society. The only true way
that they
wouldn’t fit in is if they broke the social contract agreement, in
which case
they would be outcasts. But differentiality is welcomed in this
society. It is
my belief that only if there are different opinions, can we
make ourselves
better. The only thing that would guarantee that everything
remained equal is by
making sure everyone followed the contract (notice I’m
stressing the contract
a lot). By following the contract, we assure equal
treatment of everyone. And of
course all those who break the contract will be
punished equally without
discrimination. The way that I can guarantee that
everyone follows the rules is,
again, through altruism. This is exactly why
we need altruism in order to keep
order in the anarchist utopia. If people
don’t give a rat’s ass about each
other, then this system will never work.
Entertainment would be the same as
today, with moderation of course. People
would watch TV, music will still be
written, and nothing will be censored.
These things would be considered
necessities because they are the way that
people are informed. Without these
essential tools, people would not be
informed about their surroundings and it
would make way for a leader to form.
And since these things are necessities,
they would also be taught to the
young generations by the older ones. So in
conclusion, the only good
government is no government at all. By getting rid of
all those above us, we
create the perfect society, we create Utopia. And this is
the only way to
achieve it.