tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post2241103212783202845..comments2023-09-25T04:26:51.568-06:00Comments on The Barefoot Bum: Understanding anarchismLarry Hamelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-5877834187087600782010-03-05T04:54:55.247-07:002010-03-05T04:54:55.247-07:00It's even worse, Hunt. Human societies are alr...It's even worse, Hunt. Human societies are <i>already</i> dynamical systems that seek equilibrium around an attractor. To say that human societies are something else is to say that something <i>outside humanity</i> is controlling or strongly influencing our social structures.<br /><br />By db0's implicit vacuous definition in that post, either all human societies are "anarchist", or the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_Earth_%28novel%29" rel="nofollow">Psychlos</a> have really been fucking things up for millennia.Larry Hamelinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-22360655379987653462010-03-04T18:04:09.147-07:002010-03-04T18:04:09.147-07:00I second your confusion. Recalling the connection...I second your confusion. Recalling the connection to dynamical systems that db0 celebrated, anarchism makes the profound assumption that the system will equilibrate at an attractor that we find beneficent. But this is completely a faith position, since the attractor could as easily be horrific.Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03589253382301604435noreply@blogger.com