On Anarchy
Posted Jul 5, 2005 4:51 UTC (Tue) by
jstAusr (guest, #27224)
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On Anarchy by njhurst
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ESR: 'We Don't Need the GPL Anymore' (O'ReillyNet)
The GPL provides an equal foundation to build upon. The equality of the GPL doesn't depend on the political state of society. I imagine the GPL is very disturbing to most selfish leaders, for how will they take the work of others and make it their own? The GPL also depends on the forward thinking people that use it for their work, I am very grateful to those people, they have given me hope.
Do people really want to be led, or is it more that they fear being alone? Those are learned behaviors anyway, if a person was always alone and that is all they knew, they wouldn't fear it and I doubt they would want someone else to lead them. And because they are learned behaviors, they can be
shaped in any number of different ways by their social environment.
I think humans can generally do better than our traditions, governments and social structures would suggest or have allowed. Violence committed by a government is just changing the wrapper, the result is the same.
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