Anarchism?

[joshh]

As an atheist I'm glad to see we have Christianity vs Anarchy. Christians have community and help one another in tough times. However they are just as susceptible to injustices as the rest of us.
There has to be Government. Just a limited amount of it. Full on Anarchy would be just that. A free for all of injustice and misery.

[rasputin]

i dont see the U.S ever being a anarchist's society, the gov't wouldn't allow it, we have one of the largest millitaries around, before anything could happen a highly skilled team of spec-ops soldiers would shut it down.

[streetwaves]

Interested in seeing whether anyone else here has some sympathy for the idea. Particularly I'm interested in what my fellow atheists think, since I see a number of pretty strong parallels between the two ideas (I'd say 99% of anarchists are atheists, too).

Now, I can't call myself an anarchist because my experience on the subject is very limited. However, I think we can all see problems with hierarchical systems of power. A very simple observation could even simply be that "representative democracy" makes corruption much more easily spread, and I think obviously totally unavoidable. To make matters worse, accountability also tends to decrease towards the top of the pyramid despite efforts to control that.

But that's just some shit to get this started, as I don't really know where you start on such a large subject. Thoughts?