For those wanting to gain an insight to the idea of anarchy, a great place to start is Peter Marshall’s book ‘Demanding the Impossible’ (2008, Harper Perennial, London). This tome is very easy to read and quite beautifully organised into easily digested components. Why do I start with a reference to something that most people will not take the time to…
If you were to put your key ideas, your primary thought drivers into writing and present them to another person, and then asked them to pass commentary on your thinking, what do you expect would happen? I’d put it to you that this person would inevitably resort to categories as a methodology of transmitting concepts. Now this may be completely…
Politics and religion. If there ever was a recipe for friction and dissent, these two would be at the top of the ingredients list. Children and education would have to come a close third. So what happens when you have a major city split down religious lines, about to cast votes in a political contest to see just how religion…
It seems to me that many folks are misunderstanding the role of anarchy, and with it the role of the Armchair Anarchist… Many thanks to Neil for pointing to the Urban Dictionary as a repository of many things cultural and the source of a possible definition… Armchair Anarchist Person of the ‘alternative society’ bent who would claim a…
i truly am really, really sorry. Not for the things i have done so much as for the things that i have not done. Not for a lack of understanding of issues that surround me so much as a lack of desire to act on any of those issues. and maybe for being content to sit by and watch others…