Op-Ed: Why I’m an Anarchist By: Puck Arks

Written By: Puck Arks

Why I’m an Anarchist

"Government” is a monopoly on initiated aggression over a given geographical region funded by extortion and propped up by the belief in the myth of authority. While anarchy consists of peaceful, loving and responsible individuals engaging in voluntary and consensual interaction. 

Anarchists are commonly associated with bomb-throwing and mayhem on the streets, but in reality that is the government, religion and media’s objective. They need a subservient society in order to maintain control for their oppressive, egotistical agenda. 

Anarchy is a society based on mutual aid, sharing, collaboration, and freedom. A world that values people where everyone is free to follow their passions. A people who are empowered to solve problems as a community. There is a break with authority where we feel comfortable with not obeying and not having the instinct to obey but are comfortable with our ability to to govern no one but ourselves. 

We go forward not just blindly obeying and believing what we are told but follow the only moral authority which exists inside all at birth until we are indoctrinated. 

Unless citizens themselves take responsibility, society will continue be ripped apart and continue crumbling. It is possible to have a society where things like meaning, community, and love are at the heart of society, not afterthoughts in an economy and culture that pretends that wealth is the most important measure of success. Through compassion, voluntarism, kindness and love together we can reweave the tattered threads of society. 

Anarchy offers a deeper and more enduring order where we respect and work with one another on the things we most care about, a society we can pass on to future generations.