Why I'm an anarchist | Sophie Scott-Brown full interview | Anarchy and democracy

The couple of friends is a good exemple. But could it work at a bigger scale?

If the people of Italy wanted such a government, maybe the people of Italy are not as much of a friend as we may have hoped.....

This is why women should not be able to vote

She certainly doesn't want what will be in an anarchy!

You're a privileged white female who is cosplaying as an "anarchist" while you reify the superstructure of capitalism.

What to do? 1) Vote Trump & MAGA Republican 2024 and 2) Dismantle the defacto regional authoritarian government euphemistically called the EU.

Large powerful institutions seems to universally be corrupted to benefit a small group of special interests, at everyone else's expense.

Anarchy, in all honesty, is shrinking the concept of national leadership down to something easily digestible to the individual. There is no true individual freedom as long as there are at least 2 people.

This isnt anarchy. This is something that started as anarchy thats been reduced down to simply critical thought. But you are LABELING it as anarchy because thats how you get in these yt videos. Its makes good headlines and gets clicks. None of these thoughts are profound enough or impactful enough to get filmed for. But once its more than just an idea and you start marketing yourself as someone "Working on pacifist forms of post war anarchy" well THEN youve carved a brand for yourself!!!

Which is ironically so against the essence of anarchy. What a capitalist framework to function in.

soph·ist·ry
/ˈsäfəstrē,ˈsōfəstrē/
noun
the use of fallacious arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving.
"trying to argue that I had benefited in any way from the disaster was pure sophistry"
a fallacious argument.

I watched her without sound at first, to get only the subtext, bevor listening to her. Then I got the idea of the word clownflictseeking.
Mybe I skip listening at all now.

Anarchie should not become Clownflictseeking.

Leadership with equal power is the key to successful anarchy, successful business and a successful family.

Anarchy is the only path of true law, otherwise it's perversion and regression. Like capitalism pretending to be rightful, it's the opposite, corruption as law.

Good example of “anarchy” in action are the military units making autonomous decisions on the battlefield without waiting for chain of command input. It is so effective that this is now nato best practice adopted by armies worldwide. You have also countless examples in Corporate world. So the only question that remains is: where do we draw the line and block people’s autonomy, and more importantly WHY “here and not there”? If we can manage our neighbourhood why can’t we also extend the same decision making process to the town or County level?

Because you live in safe space in western country. Why dont you make your propoganda in china, or iran, or afganistan? All you need is comfortable life. Anarchist cant exist without goverment protection and help. And the first thing that anarchists do is to seek privileges from the state, ask for benefits, ask for permission to work and travel. Very independent

anarchism was largely an academic exercise like communism, but i agree the old financial models are obliterating what it means to be human

What if not everyone wants more freedom?

It has proven time and time again wo govt human society would fall apart and it would just be survival of the fittest like the animal kingdom

I care most about two aspects of governance: the 'right to exit' and protecting competitive governance.

What a waste of space. Her anarchist contemplations are pure luxury - made possible by all the diligent non-anarchist labors & sacrifices of those around her.

For an anarchist, the idea of structure and conformity is mindless. So, to be politically anarchist isn't to want to tear it all down. Instead, it's to open it up to pure, raw feelings and intellect. No party, no "leaders," no patronizing.

A wise old sage once said: "Democracy basically means of the people, for the people, by the people. But the people are Retarded."

That "anarchist" sure seems to benefit from our system of laws

because she's rich

Anarchy is questioning but it is only a personal quest. Powers structure like religion and patriarchy will never allow the idea of anarchy to become a system of organization

I don't feel like she's saying anything substantive. I don't feel like I'm learning anything about anarchism.

I’m not an anarchist, despite sympathies in that direction, because I am too much of a pragmatist. I stick mostly to Existentialism which emphasizes the individual as a autonomous free agent directing their own existence through acts of will.

Sophie Scott-Brown is a real iconoclast... she can't even sit on a chair like a normal person.

Why I am not an anarchists.
Someone will rule.

Kind of a waste of time, Switzerland has national citizens initiatives that force referenda. So now does Finland. Thats a START, but its going to be a long haul just to get that in America or most countries. After that worry about things like that.

I’m in love.

She would be a captive in an hour in a truly free world.

I am with the Peoples Front of Judea

Democracy is not compatible with anarchism. Freedom means from freedom. And that means freedom from your brothers.

It’s understandable why some artists are attracted to anarchy due to the individual nature of our work, however, anarchy is something that can never function successfully in the world. People are tribal and will always need leaders, direction and law to successfully interface with each other safely.

All of the many times in the past when these types of ideas have been used to destabilize societies, the vacuum has always been filled by unscrupulous leaders who see an easy route to complete power. It will always be this way. Anarchy and the isms always accomplish the opposite of what they intend. In attempting to eliminate leaders and management throughout society, they end up with one absolute leader with power over all.

Because she doesnt understand the word

She seems to be arguing that leadership should feel nice to everyone.

Direct democracy isn't really the question. The question is how do we overcome the overwhelming numbers of our population who are unconsciously following the corrupt scientific industrial narrative that has overthrown community standards? We've objectified the world to death. That objectification has led to little more than all of us chasing our own tails. Listening to her, I'm reminded of the book Watership Down, telling the story of a group of rabbits wanting to set up a community far removed from other standards of governance. Worth a read.

This lady's tungue is anarchist towards her mouth.

Sounded like a vegan praising bacon sandwiches

Another middle class academic who wouldn't last five minutes in an actual anarchist society

The problem is how make sure we implement a game" that will self sustain itself while avoiding a tiny minority of bad players taking over the rest. In the end power seems to be so ingrained in our way of organizing ourselves that this may deem impossible a problem to solve without some sort of centralized power.

Lol, just another boring western

I think direct democracy cant be just happening spontaneously like she said. You need some guardrails to keep the ricght to particpate. And in that sense it is not that different to democracy.

Is it pretentious to call yourself an anarchist?

This is so stupid, I can’t be arsed to put the intellectual effort in

If you can articulate anarchist ideas of leadership, then I don’t know where to start.