Greetings to you all (well I suppose you all). . .I've developed the habit of trolling in past forums, so now let's see if I can lay that aside in exchange for some actual meaningful/thoughtful "company"

*le sigh*. . .so here goes.

First off, I was raised by conservative Christians in Texas, was quite "on fire" for the lord for about 15 years, then kind of fell off the bandwagon and got into anarchy (in the meantime discovering that religions and statism are based on similarly flawed principles). I traveled around with renaissance festivals for some years, hit up some info-shops, and got rather disillusioned with anarchy, because reading 'zines only helped to give me the impression that anarchists were dejected 30-year olds living in their mom's basement without actually writing anything meaningful. Got into a native-american cultish setting in Oregon (centered around the native sun dance ceremony), had a short stint with black-markets and the fasting/mutilation of one sundance, realized that wasn't my scene, and escaped with my wife to Norway.

The renaissance festivals have grown rather cultish around the drum-jam scene (people getting berated for not dancing/drumming/"raising the energy", and for leaving early instead of going until sunrise), and several folks have studied bs for so many years they think they're tapped into the "akashic record", and rape as many different cultures as they can get their hands on.

After leaving the renaissance festival scene, drove with my my wife to my parent's house in Texas, only to find out that they're in a multi-level marketing scheme selling essential oils.

Around February of this year I discovered FDR's literature, and it gave me a bit of renewed hope for anarchy as a concept, because it seemed to be more than "just a 30 year old crying in his mom's basement", but alas, the cultish aspects of it started to get to me, though my wife and I have both enjoyed reading the books, we haven't really been active on the forums. Still, it feels a little disheartening coming to a realization of the false "logic" that is employed there, and the fact that it's really a 30-something year old starting some cult-like frenzy.

So on facebook, several friends of mine from EastTx have created a secret group which is basically all trolls. . .they go to different ETX newssites and troll on the stupid crap that comes through as "news" for Texas. . .I started trolling the members there because it was basically just a republican-bash frenzy, and I wanted to point out that the left is stealing from people just as much as the right. One of the members is a military wife, who just recently moved to Germany, and posted a thread complaining and asking for help because the military wouldn't pay for their PETS to get over to Germany...I replied with "as a taxpayer, I've already paid for YOUR trip...you're welcome, don't ask me for more money"

Needless to say the stateless philosophy isn't very well received there.

So, does anyone know of a more well-constructed thesis on state-free society that you can recommend?

How could you leave out Goldman and Bakunin? For shame.

Elisha_ben_Avuya wrote:

Fake anarchists: Noam Chomsky.

"One of the biggest problems in the US today is the prevalent anti-government bias."

And you know the cunt is talking about assholes who plaster their vehicles in US or Confederate flags and yellow ribbons.

Also, Hoppe belongs in this category, not the one you placed him in.

Hoppe advocates societies where charismatic (and supposedly "responsible) "natural elite" have ultimate control over all land in their community, and order enforcement of standards in public activity and even speech. To protect the sanctity of property, people shall be expelled from their property if they advocate the "wrong" socio-political ideas. I believe this is in "Democracy: The God That Failed"