Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny sounds like twelve year old me playing Mad Libs.

>A person is smart, rational. People are dumb panicky animals.

Yeah, as I was rereading the article, I kept thinking "But how exactly could anyone organize an educational system without a hierarchical (i.e. dominant) structure of some kind? I trust a doctor to give me medical care or to cut me open on the basis of the existing power structures within our educational system (which help ensure certain standards are met).

Like I said, I don't think a purely anarchistic society is feasible (and certainly not at the scale of an entire nation); but there are idealistic elements to it that I think we absolutely should focus on (including to the point of restructuring our existing societies to be more equitable and less dominating).

Excellent article, thank you, I needed something to ponder for the day.

I don't think it's fair to discuss anarchism as though it's an achievable state and this article does a really good job of laying out the challenges of that approach.

I see anarchism as being an ideal standard of living. I don't think we'll ever get to that standard but I think it's important to hold up that image of a perfect world and to ask ourselves, "What can we do in the here-and-now that will get us closer to this?"