Breaking down walls, tearing down barriers and abolishing borders.
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
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You engage in anarchism every day, and since you're here on Lemmy, it's statistically unlikely you're beating people up.
You don't engage in anarchism? At all, ever? So in your group of friends, you have clearly established hierarchy? Do you go on a date with the assumption that one of you is in charge? Have you never gotten together with a group and discussed what's best for you all, without one person being the leader?
Anarchism isn't a lack of rules, or the strong beating the weak, or every person for themselves. Anarchism is rejection of cohersive authority. Anarchism is a thousand little things you do every day with everyone around you. You've definitely participated in anarchism, whether you want to admit you have or not. And no amount of protestation is going to change that.
Damn man, I sympathize.
I am sorry for the trauma you have suffered that has left you living in fear like this. I don't expect you to believe me, but this really isn't the world in which most of us live, it isn't how things really are and it doesn't have to be this way for you either.
Look, I have no idea who you are, I don't know anything about you and we have never interacted before. You assuming that I'm part of some grand conspiracy makes it pretty clear to me that you are suffering from paranoid delusions. If you're not getting it already, I strongly urge you to seek help, and I'm sorry if I riled you up.
I am not questioning that you have been abused and that it must have been truly horrible. The paranoid delusion is thinking that every person is a sadist who's out to hurt you, and that some stranger saying "sorry" on the internet is doing so with some undefined malicious intent.
I hope you get better.