On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Would it be a bad thing? Just as it's hard to cheer on extreme > centralisation of power as a good thing, it's hard to imagine complete > elimination of central power as a good thing. I'm not saying that you can't > advocate for it: in fact, most people in liberal democracies in our times > default to advocating for it, with the assumption that it'll never get so > far as to turn into something horrific (or transformatively beautiful). Call > it a lack of idealism, call it a failure of creativity. It's just hard to > imagine it. Go on: imagine a world without governments. Despite what John > Lennon (or Vladimir Lenin) claims, it's not easy at all. >
its a nice concept but never feasible or practical. there will always be some sort of external force claiming the stick of 'civilization'... and wanting to bring about order. (Somalia before and during the rule of the islamic courts/al shabab is a good example...)
