Thanks for the kind words, Jimi G, and for bringing another perspective on some of the core ideas.

“Add in the disgusting bigotry dressed up as “cultural conservatism” and you suddenly have a realization akin to discovering that why you’re distrustful of your neighbor is because your neighbor is, in fact, a necrophobic ghoul.”

Your neighbor is a necrophobic ghoul. Nothing “akin” to it. Human beings are killers.

The essence of being human is controlling oneself and, by extension, one’s environment. Of course, the fall of man is when humans discovered that their fellow man was part of the environment to be controlled. Thus entered the State into the world.

Since control is the goal, and killing (or the threat of it) is the ultimate form of control, by necessity humans are killers.

This fact pervades all levels of “society.” It accounts for the “thin veneer of civilization,” which easily eroded, reveals man’s true nature.

Anarchy is the solution to this all-pervasive violence, in that it disperses it to its minimum density, whereas Statism concentrates it into its most potent and deadly forms.

No surprise that the ruling class that controls the machinery of State seeks to perpetuate it. The level of control over the environment that it allows is virtually absolute in human terms.

I think that anarchism is misunderstood, in that most individuals that entertain the logical arguments in its favor leap illogically to a conclusion that somehow it will eradicate violence. Alas, humans will cease to be human if they cease to be violent.

What anarchism achieves is the maximum dispersion of violence, thus ensuring maximum personal responsibility for one’s life.

Just wanted to get those thoughts out. Thanks again.

It wasn’t until I kept seeing that conservatives did NOT have the same ideals that I did that I began to question that premise and look around to see what I “was”. I wasn’t too worried about my label; my opinion never wavered. Then I discovered the book “Lever Action” by L. Neil Smith and realized where I stood.