Anarchy is generally thought of as a lack of order. It is often thought that anarchy allows us to adapt to unexpected changes. It "is the belief that any form of rulership is undesirabe and should be abolished"-en.wikipedia.org .

Anarchy is the state of living without rulership. The very loose use of this termonology and the very political volatility of its nature makes it a target for a very indiscriminate character assassination. It is even the prime target for anyone who wishes to become a ruler because of this volatility. The concept behind this is that when there is sufficient disorder, the masses will look toward someone who is less affected or who speaks out in order to guide them to stability. Once this has been done, as has been seen in the past many countless times throughout history, the ruler may become a tyrant and place him/her-self in power as a godlike figure.

 

Anarchy, in its present state, is of course volatile. It needs to be considered as something to look into and define more closely in order to disrupt anarchistic activities such as suicide-bombing and pleasure-robbery, and even murder rampages. The main reason behind the success of these social structures is the fact that they can be defined under the guise as something that is not strongly warned against. Children grow to believe that a world without rules is a better world, when in truth, it is not. The world they truly wish for is a world of peace and true freedom, but when the elders tell them they are being anarchists, they are enabled to stand under a symbol of unity for a single cause.

 

This is generally a way to tiptoe around the real issue. It is about social structure. Social structure is a hands-on thing. It is actually handed down from parents and older friends, to younger friends and children in the form of tradition and sometimes religion. In all practicality, tradition and religious practices are anti-anarchistic practices. They cause a group of people to confrom to a single state of mind in which they may all be taking part in a larger activity with a small variety of beliefs and practices which guide daily life. The very oneness is, in itself, a form of social order. Often, elders are given a higher status, or in some systems, better endowed people are. They, without even understanding the system that is in place, guide the larger group on whims and often upon trivial opinions. Some things such as stories and health practices may prove beneficial in this system, but there is usually more harm than good, standing in the way of progress.

 

Another point in this whole thing is a term loosely coined as brainwashing. It is really a way to make a person believe something without any practical evidence to back it up. Things such as nationalism and choice of colors, even deciding which foods or which cars they like, are all influenced by forms of brainwashing. It is sickening to me to see that all one needs to do to sway a person's opinions, and therefore beliefs, is to stir their emotions, and they can convince them to do such ludicrous things as jumping off of cliffs. In practice, jumping off a cliff is only the tip of the iceberg. According to a sociologist, manipulations such as choosing brands of ice-cream can cause a much more subtle effect. There are so many possibilities these days, many of which can easily be guarded against simply by raising ones children to pay attention to it, that range from a song all the way to a complex mixture of sounds and images to cause a hypnotic trance, easily accomplished by television and radio.

 

What's more, the people who always figure this stuff first are the people who can do the most harm. There have been police studies on children walking home from school, or even on the short path to a bus, that disguised police have convinced children to get into the vehicle with them. Even more, unless you have thought long and hard about the implications, you are guaranteed not to give it a second thought. As the results of the police studies have been bad, there are many 'regular people' out there doing the same thing with children and adults, yet giving them a one-way trip.

 

By now you're thinking that this has nothing to do with anarchy, and that this is a bunch of alarmist nonsense. Getting back to the subject, if we want to live in a safer world, we need to regulate our social practices. Regulation is a natural thing for all organic things. When you look out at the world, you are regulating what you see. When you talk to someone, you are regulating what you say and hear more than you know. When you look for food, you regulate how you do it and what you are eating. It is only second nature, also, to regulate our social practices, however, when we make a conscious choice rather than an unconscious choice, we have more of a chance to make the right one.

 

It is clear now that anarchy as we loosely know it is impossible. No matter what you decide to do, you will never be able to do it randomly, because the very decision relies on the availability of choices and the discretion to know what choices you will pick between. Social order is not the scary invisible prison people make it out to be, but a conscious choice to do the right thing for the safety of us all. Make informed decisions, and pay more attention to what you decide to do in your daily life. Think especially about this social construct called your 'character' which everyone probably knows you by. Are you known for how nice, caring, honorable, generous, selfish, backstabbing, destructive, or mean you are? If so, you are already the unwitting subject of a strict social order which you are probably in too much denial to break. It's probably a social order which you have been building for you whole life, or one which certain people seem to like you for. These are not the mark of what many know of as anarchy. Many are certainly not traits of someone wishing for world peace. In fact, the very battle between characters is a form of social order.

 

Furthermore, our character dictates who we are and what choices we make. It is the root of the inner battle which many of us face. The desire to fit into the template of activity and thought which is sought after as perfect or most desirable. Truly, the very looseness by which most of us as a people think of ourselves is what makes us unstable, and a very few too stable. Many people who try to commit suicide will say that they are miserable when by medical standards, nothing is wrong with them. They suffer from an perceived yearning after the template which everyone seems to long for. This is, of course, peace, happiness, tranquility, being free of pain, fitting in, and feeling loved, to sum it up, it is to have fulfillment.

 

Even deeper into it is the fact that these states of being are fleeting. In fact, they are not even especially healthy for the long term. The struggle, or the race, is what it's all about. We define ourselves by what we are fighting against, and if we give into the law's moral system, we can only fall into a deep depression of uneasiness and emptiness. There are people who are too simple for this, but for those who are not, I can tell you from experience that I have walked in many peoples' shoes and found that the answers which I give you here are continuously reenforced.