“There is felt today very widely the inconsistency in this condition of political democracy and industrial absolutism. The people are beginning to doubt whether in the long run democracy and absolutism can coexist in the same community; beginning to doubt whether there is a justification for the great inequalities in the distribution of wealth, for the rapid creation of fortunes, more mysterious than the deeds of Aladdin’s lamp…
The government is the potent omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.”
Louis D. Brandeis
“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.
…when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society-the farmers, mechanics, and laborers-who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their Government. There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.”
Andrew Jackson
Archy’s are all about legality: official (magic) edicts invented & “enacted” (magic) to legitimize (magic) rent extractions from sitizen•serf•slaves – NOT law.
Anarchy knows & shows magic for what it is – mere trickery hinged upon gullibility, credulity, & subservience, but also upon the venality, criminality of any\all co-conspiritors who accept ill-gottens ~payoffs~ even if only crumbs.
“There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.”
Nope. Government, by virtue of possessing the monopoly on the legal use of violence in a given geographic area, by extracting its funding through force, by denying the voluntary refusal to abide by its edicts, is inherently EVIL. Its existence and the power it inherently possesses, draws towards it, those who would abuse its power to their own ends like a flame draws a moth.