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by TulliusCicero 991 days ago
Everyone else is going to spontaneously force rules onto others? And how exactly do you see that working when the party breaking some rule resists?

It's exactly this kind of magical thinking that has resulted in essentially no state-equivalent anarchist societies actually managing to function and exist in modern times, the few that pop up get slammed down by states, because they really suck at resisting. The closest you seem to get are situations like the Zapatistas that are libsoc, not anarchist, since they still have a state.

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> And how exactly do you see that working when the party breaking some rule resists?

They get killed/droned. Have you seen Escape from NY/LA? This would be like the modern australia except people can volunteer to go there and we have the tech and resources to enforce a perimeter and monitor the goings in the place.

Anarchism really isn't the goal. It is to have the equivalent of the old west where while it is brutal and you don't enjoy rights and benefits of civilization, you also get to live a life, however short, that is truly yours. Anyone cal flee global persecution and go there. Snowden could have for example. The place itself is considered the equivalent of dying to society once you enter it and you can never come out of it. Whether technology, disease, ideology or something else, this would be the redundancy, a controlled environment that is immune to the changes of the outside global world. A place for those who have no place anywhere else. A place criminals can volunteer to go to for certain crimes (especially victimless ones) instead of spend their lives in a cage. Where deserters from war and those who abandon their lives can go to, at the risk of their safety and with no guarantees of wellbeing other than that which they could fight for. It would be more mad max than somalia.