/lit/ - Literature

I can imagine a kind of organization which comes to be organically and is only contextually hierarchical, like stem cells that become whatever they 'need' to be based on what's around them. So for people this might look like a factory where people preform roles with varying degrees of authority throughout the day. Now using machines, now maintaining them, now moving materials place to place, now making plan on how these things will be done; based on a contextal priority provided by the environment. Steam is flowing from the factory, I can now go fill roles for which I am equipped as needed until I am not needed or decide I wish to do otherwise. I arrive on a train and play my role to see the train makes it where it needs to go, maybe I'm a passenger so I am only equipped to keep myself and maybe some others from being a nuisance to those equiped for other tasks. Obviously this doesn't resolve your criticism, but I think it shows how authority can have a very flexible nature. I think the main concern of anarchists is better conceptualized as the flux of authority rather than it's complete abolition, as I think it's the fixed nature of it that causes it to be 'bad'. So while you are correct that to try to abolish all authority is a fools errand; I think you don't speak on the real concern that Anarchists (or atleast I) have which is authority's ability and tendency to permanently fix its and my position, to solidify my role in a variety of contexts by what it decides and thus preventing me playing all the roles for which I am willing and able.

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You certainly sound like her, but something still seems off.