Less Than Nothing

The Industrial Revolution has created an unprecedented trend in the development of Human society, every second that passes, the world develops, new technologies arise, and the net effectiveness of the Human species increases. We are on an exponentially rising trajectory of advancement. Generally speaking, today, is the greatest day in human history, the day when the most people are living best. Of course, there are issues with today's world, there is still death, and exploitation, and poverty, but as a whole, the Human Species is improving, standards of living are better than they were 100 years ago, we live longer, we know more, and we have vaccines and modern medicines. Historically speaking, this state of perpetual advancement is the outlier in terms of societies, as civilisations rose and fell, their innovations and technologies were often lost. Individuals lived in the shadows of their ancestors, tales of whose societies became legendary. Only since the industrial revolution, ...

Anarchist Theory abhors the modern nation's monopoly on force. Today the public perception of Anarchism is often more of Molotov Cocktails and Carbombs than of liberty and social cooperation. Anarchism however intends to establish a system of absolute self-determination, under an anarchic system, individuals are free from enforced societal participation, and human progress is built upon collaboration on a voluntary basis. This system, taken at face value seems excellent, though in the modern day, the control of the state over individuals is seen as a necessary evil, Anarchists however, hold that this system is not a requirement in order to create a functioning 'society'. The issue with the establishment of a functional Anarchist commune is the question of whether the individual is incentivised to uphold cooperation, without a disincentive in the form of the power of the state, do individuals actively participate in a society, or even not participate, can a collective, witho...