It amazes me, those folk who see
a capital on Anarchy
and think the rules all change by changing that.
They say "Screw following the rules.
Screw Government, get rid of Schools!
Imagine life where we can ALL live fat!"
What they don't see is that those laws
are all that keep them from the jaws
of sharks who swim in this genetic sea,
'cause anarchy is just a place
where only those with strength have place;
the strong take what they want...want what they see!
So when you say "just set me free
and let me live to just be me!"
be sure that you're the biggest, baddest and most able...
'cause THAT'S who'll have what you hold dear;
you think your life right NOW is fear?
Wait 'til you're just a slave in someone's stable.
So LONG ago, law was enacted
so the weak could be protected.
You think it evil that you have to live
by rules, but the reality
is that they're all that keep you free!
Without them, you lose all you have to give.
Author notes
I'm always amazed by the number of people who cry for Anarchy and are the ones least suited to survive that environment.
Megan...are you the biggest, strongest, baddest one around? Hope so, if you ever see anarchy...'cause Law is the only thing keeping that badass from taking anything he wants from you.
A contest entry
- What it's really about - Anarchy by Megan Awesome.
550 points, ended March 25, 2008, 12 entries
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I like this
you old redneck.
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Before I start my comment remember, I respect your opinion and am only trying to explain
It is illegal to beat your horse, but not your wife.
In Mountain Home Arkansas at a certain time of the day on certain days it is legal to take your wife to the time square and beat her.
Women make 75 conts less than men.
The phrase 'rule of thumb' comes from the law that says it is illegal to beat your wife with anything thicker than your thumb.
These are just a few of the laws that the government have put in place. These are the people that I'm supposed to truse to keep me safe??? The governments solution to everything is war. And the police discriminate to much to be able to the job they are intended to do!
Anarchy is originally a hippie concept. They believed in Peace and everyone being equal. No one higher than the other. People that are TRUE anarchists (not the punk rockers that took the idea of anarchy being an antigovernment comnept and went wild) do not discriminate. We are not racist or sexist. It's not about 'there are no laws, lets run wild and take what we want.' No. Anarchy is only a dream, I realize this. Because if my idea of anarchy were in place this world would be a happy place to live. FREEDOM. It's getting to the point in this country where we cant wear what we want at school. Thats freedom? I never said I was against schools. Schools are the base of our lives. Where we learn everything we need to know to make something of ourselves. Is freedom being afraid to be who you are because of society?
If your idea of anarchy was mine then I wouldn't believe in it. I'd be afraid. I'm seventeen years old, 5'3 and about 103 pounds. If anarchy was about fending for myself then it would not be my way of life. 'cause anarchy is just a place
where only those with strength have place
That is what THIS world is like.
Youth is wasted on the young
I know what you are thinking. 'She's seventeen! She can't possably know!' What adults don't seem to realize is that todays youth has so much put on them, so many responsabilities and expectations, that teens fifteen and up are basically mature enough to be treated as adults. Having to be a teenager in todays world is having to grow up quickly. So yes, I do know.
Thank you for you'r poem and opinion.
Make love, not war
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Angel,
I AM/WAS an original, old-school hippie. A misguided few of my generation borrowed anarchy, as a concept, from a bunch of oddball French anarchists who borrowed the concept from someone else. Don't try to hang that foolishness on us!
Anarchy would, however, allieviate the biggest problem facing man, overpopulation.
If anarchy were to gome to pass, the "anarchists" from the cities, {which are only false constructs of a capitalist culture, as are city dwellers} would flee to the countryside, where they would be put into service as fertilizer by farmers, who had subscribed to the idea of representitive government.
"Beware of what you desire" -
...and by the way, anarchy goes WAY back past the hippies.
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Angel, try showing me a battered MENS' shelter! Women have the protection of law in far more places than they don't...men have...what? What could I do the day my ex got pissed off and pushed the car off the jacks on top of me, leaving me trapped for four hours (not to mention severely injured)?
Nothing. There are laws against domestic violence, yes, but you try to prosecute your wife and the cops will laugh you ass out of the station. Yes, I KNOW about violence and fear...but think how much MORE afraid you'd have to be walking down any road anywhere if there WEREN'T laws and cops to enforce them. It's bad enough now...drug-dealing gangs run the streets better armed than I legally CAN be (and I'm fully licensed in a keep-and-carry state!)
I get what you're saying ( I WAS a teen once, you know...and I raised one and I have teenage grandchildren.) But all I gave you is what anarchy actually is...absense of law. If you think that conditon would make you safer...you're dreaming.
Really.
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Ahhh yes, perhaps anarchy is futile. Unless, of course, its for a good cause? I mean, we'd still be British subjects if we followed all the rules all the time.
But that aside, this is a well crafted little ode, holding up nicely in its form. I always enjoy poetry that does that, and I even see the argument being made. Rules can also set us free, when justly upheld.
Not bad work, deric! I enjoyed the read...
peace
doug
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Awesome!
Finally someone who agrees with me! And to put it in a poem too! Awesome job! I loved it!
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Wow I loved this poem and it is filled with so much truth Anarchy would just be totally ridiculous and how people don't understand what it would cause.. it they don't want to
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Groan yes quite. I hope Niko doesn't see this contest. One is so torn between the idealism of Youth and the sloganism of it all and the reality, that even to an old battle scarred anarchist is still in the making and will probably be still in the making in 1000 years time if there is still a planet with homo sap floundering around on it by then. A long way to go.
For the young they think it can be achieved today (as in every today since ummm probably since men banded together for co-operative and communal organising of the hunter- gathering.)
I should not see anything wrong in the bright eyed idealism, I try not to lose it myself, even though my head knows that the boring parts need to be worked through before even two people in sympathy with each other can agree on what 'Anarchy' actually is in political, economic and social terms as applied to the Nation State and beyond that, globally. Yeah.
So the poem itself. Duh I just noticed the rhyme scheme. I really should read stuff out loud. I had to go back to see if it was a villanelle subtly snuck in as although I can't write them, other people like you can so that they do not sound like a skipping rhyme.
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You pulled your point of view through nice and strong with this.
I think you would make a good anarchist.
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LOL...As Rob pointed out in the Pub, oddly, those of us best suited to survive anarchy are usually the ones who know what a really BAD idea it is, and conversely, those who think it's the situaion that would "set them free" are usually the ones who would end up either dead or somebody's bitch (read "slave"...and No, Dear Contest Holder, I didn't just call you a bitch, so let's not get started again!).
[sidenote: It's so inevitable with some people that when they can't rationally oppose your argument they have to go searching for something in it that they can call an insult, in order to sidetrack the discussion! (That wasn't you, Amber...just a side observation about the infantile crap entering this contest got me into with its hostess.)] -
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What?
What wasn't me? -
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The person who had to go looking for a reason to act insulted...that wasn't about you.
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totally agree
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Thanks for seeing! The contest says anarchy is about "Not falling to your knees to a higher power." That's just silliness; anarchy is ALL about being DRIVEN to your knees by a higher power, so unless you ARE that power, you're just meat...and no matter how big and bad you are, there's always someone bigger and badder.
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Youth is wasted on the young. -
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But,
I would do rather well under the natural, {Feudal} order.lol. -
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Yeh, I imagine you would; me, I failed as a knight-errant. (Spent too many nights erring.)
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