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Originally posted by mr. wildflowers
Hypothetically, if we were to overthrow, or simply rid ourselves of, the government, do you think that America's population would be able to survive in anarchy? Would we peacefully live in communes or the like, or would the whole US erupt into civil war?
Originally posted by TheWalkingFox
reply to post by sacerd
Our founders also had no intention of being a continent-spanning world power either, but I never see any "go back to the founders" people advocating changing that. You want a big, powerful nation, well, you're going to need a big, powerful government to go with it.
Originally posted by mr. wildflowers
That's a good point. But what about, eg., hippie communes in the 60s and 70s? They had no set leaders, but functioned perfectly, with barely any trouble within. Couldn't we be like that, except on a much larger scale?
By the way, what's your profile pic? Lovecraft's Chtulu?
[edit on 6-6-2008 by mr. wildflowers]