"Anarchy" in USA?

Or just another round of "mostly peaceful riots"...

“The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without Authority, there could not be worse violence than that of Authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that Anarchy can be instituted by a revolution. But it will be instituted only by there being more and more people who do not require the protection of governmental power and by there being more and more people who will be ashamed of applying this power. There can be only one permanent revolution – a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.”

~ Leo Tolstoy, On Anarchy (1900)

Joel Bowman with today’s Note From the End of the World: Tiranë, Albania…

Uh-oh… don’t look now, dear reader, but they’re tossing around the “A-word” again, and this time it’s coming from both sides…

Los Angeles erupts in anarchy as protesters storm major highway and clash with law enforcement ~ The Daily Mail

Fetterman Calls California Protests ‘Anarchy’ as He Criticizes Democrats – The New York Times

Trump, at Fort Bragg, vows to use force against ‘anarchy’ ~ The Washington Post

It is a sad state of affairs, indeed, when philosophical, non-violent anarchists are given a bad name by hordes of actual, marauding rioters. Of course, if you listened to the mainstream media, what’s going down presently in the City of Angels… and now in metro areas across the Land of the Free, from Sea to Shining Sea… is nothing more than “mostly peaceful car burnings.”

Your Lyin’ Eyes

Earlier this week, ABC journalist Jory Rand sought to “reframe” the escalating violence on the streets of LA, even as his own channel broadcast images of cars completely engulfed in flames, the thick black smoke billowing into the night air.

Noting there was “a large group of people” running wild, Rand said it “could turn very volatile if you move law enforcement in there the wrong way and turn what is just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn into a massive confrontation and altercation between officers and demonstrators.”

And really, dear reader, who among us hasn’t gathered the family around for a bit of ol’ fashioned automobile arson of a Saturday evening? Good, wholesome stuff.

Not that we’d expect anything more from the shameless chorus of presstitutes that brought you the “two weeks to flatten the curve” fraud… the “safe and effective” propaganda… the “good people on both sides” hoax… the “Russiagate” chicanery… the “bloodbath” dupe… to say nothing of the original “mostly peaceful protests” deceit.

(Reality imitating parody, or parody imitating reality? CNN’s live “coverage” during the “mostly peaceful” BLM riots.)

The MSM’s flagrant, borderline compulsive deception notwithstanding, words actually do matter… and if there’s a “war of ideas” to be won, as we’re constantly being reminded, we’ll do well to be precise in our definitions of terms.

For the average citizen, the word “anarchist” is a pejorative used to describe jackbooted hooligans rampaging through the streets, hurling Molotov cocktails through Starbucks windows, setting Tesla’s on fire and generally throwing their toys out of the stroller. In point of fact, nothing could be further from the truth. The word has been hijacked and, in accordance with the Newspeak of our time, has come to mean the exact opposite of that for which what it stands.

Properly understood, the term anarchy, which derives from the Greek anarchia, literally translates: an, “without” + arkhos, “ruler.” Freedom from being owned... enslaved... forced against one’s will. Freedom to act voluntarily. Freedom to associate with whomever one so desires and under whatever conditions he or she sees fit...provided they do not diminish the ability of another to enjoy the same freedom.

To “live and let live,” in other words. Cooperation over coercion. Voluntarism over violence.

The great spiritual anarchist quoted above, Leo Tolstoy, understood this concept well. Indeed, his ideas on peaceful civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., men who preached peace, love and real anarchy.

Of course, the world is not so simple as all that… and capital-T “Truth” is often hard to find. Ah, but that’s a subject for another Note…

Meanwhile, this week we’ve got something for everyone… to kvetch over. On Tuesday, we invited Elon and his DOGE Musketeers to head south to Argentina, where the largest open air experiment in libertarianism is unfolding before the world’s eyes. And on Thursday, we added another tiny tile in the grand mosaic titled “real socialism is a pipe dream,” citing the observably calamitous results in collectivist, twentieth-century Albania. Read on for more, below…

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And now for your Notes From the End of the Week…

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Final Notes…

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Whatever you’re up to this weekend, peace, love and anarchy to you and yours.

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Cheers,

Joel Bowman