Years ago I started looking into anarchist philosophy. I didn't really get very far. As best I could tell at the time anarchy is just as likely to get bogged down in abstract theories and structures as most anything else we humans do. It is almost like we can't help ourselves. To be free of controlling structures we must build controlling structures. But don't call them that!
It is a real question for me whether or not we are even able to be free of this tendency. Otherwise...what?...it would be anarchy!! That's the last thing a good anarchist, or anyone else for that matter, would want.
The attraction to philosophical Taoism is for me the hope that in settling into the Tao--in returning to the uncarved block--the Way is clear. No external authority, no abstract theory necessary. But is this utopian, even delusional? Maybe. But to the degree one can so settle, it is still good.
Years ago I started looking into anarchist philosophy. I didn't really get very far. As best I could tell at the time anarchy is just as likely to get bogged down in abstract theories and structures as most anything else we humans do. It is almost like we can't help ourselves. To be free of controlling structures we must build controlling structures. But don't call them that!
It is a real question for me whether or not we are even able to be free of this tendency. Otherwise...what?...it would be anarchy!! That's the last thing a good anarchist, or anyone else for that matter, would want.
The attraction to philosophical Taoism is for me the hope that in settling into the Tao--in returning to the uncarved block--the Way is clear. No external authority, no abstract theory necessary. But is this utopian, even delusional? Maybe. But to the degree one can so settle, it is still good.
Anyway, many thanks for the recommend!
Thank you for adding several more blogs and two books to my, already substancial, reading list. Good thing that I am retired, sort of.
I always enjoy what you write, plenty to think about, even when we are not eye to eye.
Thank you for your time and thoughts
Thank you for the recommendations.