Thursday 25 September 2014

There are no governments

From the point of view of the government and politicians democracy is a problem because it means that the government can be replaced. But this is the purpose of democracy so for democracy to be unhelpful to politicians is not a contradiction. Democracy is anarchy from the point of view of the government (which is the only relevant point of view).

The first-past-the-post voting system is less democratic than proportional alternatives which means it is less anarchistic. And from the point of view of the voter anarchy is good because it gives them more power. The interests of the voter are aligned with anarchy and anti-authoritarianism. If the opposite of authority is anarchy then voters are anti-authoritarian. And in this sense first-past-the-post is authoritarian.

The purpose of this post is merely to arrange the words correctly and to make sure they are adequately-defined, in a sense to define reality, at least according to how the words are being used. We are defining the truth, I have not found a contradiction in the fptp position, merely that it denies reality and so I am just writing this post to further define reality, in particular with regard to the use of the words anarchy, government and so on.

The problem with a lack of democracy (a lack of anarchy) is that eventually an authority will emerge which is to the detriment of the people. We can think of an authority as being completely synonymous with government, without government there are no authorities.

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