Portal to Planet Earth

There are so many supporters of anarchism nowadays. People are sick and tired of the oppression, the injustice, and the corruption, and they want to be free from those responsible for it. Here’s the thing, though…
Say our governments were abolished and people were free to do what they pleased. Imagine law no longer existed and everything was free-for-all.
What happens to all the people who were in power? Are they still there, ready to take advantage of everyone around them in some way or another? Or do we kill them? If we kill them, who’s to say there weren’t some perfectly “good” authority figures out there who have now just died as innocents, or the wrongly accused? Who’s to say that killing doesn’t change a person and twist them into the same evil types that were running the show in the first place? Who’s to say that an environment where killing is perfectly legal (well, there is no law, so maybe it would be more correct to say that it isn’t illegal) won’t change and twist us all the same? And what about human nature itself? It would be irresponsible to assume that the twisted individuals in society all hold positions of leadership and power, so in that case, aren’t there immoral people everywhere?
You’d be abolishing the (defunct, sure) system of justice to protect yourself from the evil big-heads, just to allow your neighbour to kill you without having to face a single consequence.

And that’s only the first problem. Everyone hates work, right? What a bore. The only reason we keep on working is because that’s what society expects us to do.
But if society gets rid of expectations, then how many of us would carry on working. Sure, my faith in humanity isn’t so bad that I think that everyone will quit, but I’m sure all of you have felt lazy before.
But you forced yourself to get off your ass because you had responsibilities, right? But in a society where nobody has any responsibilities, what is your motivation to go on doing, well, whatever?
Your only goal is to stay out of the way of that psychopathic neighbour of yours. Work is very important though, because people have to eat. Those stores aren’t going to stay stocked forever.
The thing is, the people who were once slaving away doing the farming will want to take a break, because they can now. After all, somebody else can do there job now — there are no set roles certain people in society must play. But the nature of humanity is to pass the buck. Anyone who’s older than seven and has been in a classroom knows that.
So again, will any work get done? Will any food be made? Well, one option is that people will get desperate and use the lack of any kind of laws and their access to whatever weapons they want to enslave people they consider to be of less worth to other parts of “society”, if you can call it that, and then the cycle of oppression just repeats itself and the people who got the first weapons become the new rulers of a completely out-of-hand world.
Alright, so, what if we had machines doing all the work for us then? Sure, if, hypothetically, we had enough machines to do all the work for us and if, hypothetically, they were efficient enough to do it without accidentally poisoning us all or something, then what happens?
Humans aren’t going to work, that’s what. Have you seen WALL-E? We’re gon’ get fat, yo. (?)
We’re already so lazy, and we already have no responsibilities now, and then we’ve got to go and take away the one thing that could have at least given us some exercise or something.
Nobody’s going to exercise much when they have everything handed to them on a silver platter, and that’s not even considering the fact that humans are selfish and will find some way to exploit the machines and have them oppress others they dislike (as if hatred will disappear? Come on.).
So, maybe it turns out that there are a select few that realise the stupidity of letting robots do everything while humanity rots and they decide to exercise and train and work and gain some kind of power.
They automatically become better than everyone else in this supposedly equal and free society, and suddenly we have what are quite clearly elites, something that sounds very right wing and capitalist, doesn’t it?
Even if those “elites” were completely moral, if they wanted to save humanity then they’d have to take control and then why did we choose anarchy in the first place?

And then, and I’ll stop after this, we have the problem of education.
I’ve already discussed the problems with people not wanting to work (and in the current Western Society we live in now there is already a shortage of education workers) so let’s just pretend that we have enough teachers, for the sake of this example.
We need children willing to learn, for one. But the main reason people do learn is because of their parents, and so already we need some kind of authoritative institution. (OK, I understand that that is not against the principles of anarchism, but I thought I’d just mention it.)
If parents get their kids to go to school, first of all there’s no need to perform well or learn everything because there won’t be much in the way of goals or positions to aspire to. Not only that, but aren’t schools likened unto far leftist societies anyway?
So won’t the children be learning and adjusting to an environment where everything is about control? And then when those same kids reach their rebellious stage things will really get out of hand.
For one, they could totally just murder their teachers. I mean, most of you have wanted to kill at least one of your teachers.
They could also just run away from it all, quit education, become rock-stars or something. Nothing is stopping them now. Maybe mobs could try to hold people like them back, but without principles set in stone, they’d just take it as a personal feud and get mad and even more rebellious.
We’ve all experienced a certain level of self-government on the school playground. For one, there is dissension. For two, there is lying and cheating. For three, when any corrections are made, or attempted, a fight breaks out and people get hurt.
And that’s when we have kids used to having some kinds of rules, but in an anarchist society those kids might not even care about or know what rules are. Everything would be a giant mess, and everything would be taken personally and lead to hurt and anger, because essentially there is no right and wrong.
I’m not sure whether anyone would pursue higher education. Very few people I know nowadays care at all about learning or furthering their knowledge. Would that change if society was so drastically different? I don’t know. I’ve written too much and gotten bored.

I haven’t even touched on the problems of humans living according to only their lusts and impulses… But this wasn’t supposed to be a fool-proof argument against anarchism, it was just a couple of thoughts I had about the possible problems with it. I don’d pretend to know if even half of what I said makes even the tiniest bit of sense, but I hope it made you wonder.

If you got this far, thanks for reading!