Hobbes' Leviathan was predicated on it:
Mankind craves order. Direction. We will choose fascism over anarchy, every time.
When was the last time we asked ourselves what "anarchy" actually is? Could the current failure of Enlightenment Liberalism perhaps be related to this overlooked philosophical concept?
It's made worse by Kropotkin, Proudhon, and later ideologically "anarchist" thinkers, who turned an observation into a forever unreachable ideal.
"Anarchy", the utopia was born, utterly divorces from its ancient Greek roots.
Severed from Hobbes' Leviathan like a lost cousin, this new idea of anarchy was promulgated as an "alternative" to communism. Something even more radical than communism.
It was a complete redefinition of a classical philosophical concept, and from which other concepts depended. Like Hobbes' Leviathan.
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Is fascism better than anarchy? Hobbes says, "Yes." He makes a good argument.
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Where is the counter-argument, if not in an equally ancient idea:
DEMOCRACY.
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It's the only government we've made so far that acknowledges the fundamental, natural, inescapable reality of anarchos as the ancient Greeks thought of it.
We create order. We create chaos. It's us. We break the speed limit. We murder. We break laws that can be broken, unlike the laws of nature -- gravity and the like. We can speed on the Interstate, but we can't break the speed of light.
We can't disobey nature.
That's the lesson of anarchy, as Hobbes and ancient Greeks thought of it.
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