By meno on Skatehive
I’ve lost count how many times I’ve said in the past ten years that I’m an anarchist. To most people, when I say this, it sounds like I’m declaring war against the world. I think that reaction exists because the propaganda has already won most of the battles. You see, it’s not true that anarchism is the lack of order. It’s definitely not about wanting to throw Molotov cocktails at police cars. The ideology may not be monolithic, but it does revolve around a core idea: decentralized governance. The idea we call democracy is, in my estimation, not much more than an illusion. We don’t really pick the laws we want or the rules we deem necessary. We pick representatives—people who are supposed to work for us, to convey our collective needs to other elites in order to evoke change. And it’s probably right there where the illusion breaks. A good friend of mine likes to tell me I’m not grounded enough. That change is slow, gradual—and that’s a good thing. It’s not that I don’t see his point, b