{"id":128,"date":"2013-03-04T19:24:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T19:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.wordpress.com\/?p=128"},"modified":"2013-03-04T19:24:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T19:24:45","slug":"an-imperfect-illustration-of-anarchic-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/04\/an-imperfect-illustration-of-anarchic-order\/","title":{"rendered":"An (im)perfect illustration of Anarchic Order"},"content":{"rendered":"

DEADHEAD LAND \u201cSHAKEDOWN STREET\u201d SOUNDWALK<\/a><\/p>\n

While I was listening to the Dead and reminiscing about my tripped out teenage years, I remembered a curious thing.\u00a0 Anyone who\u2019s been to a Grateful Dead shows knows about \u201cShakedown Street\u201d.\u00a0 Here we have a completely spontaneous market place born out of necessity.<\/span>\u00a0 As you stroll through you will see tents and roadside venders selling anything and everything you could possibly imagine.\u00a0 Need an exotic pipe to smoke your wares, or how about those natural consumables to enhance your concert-going experience? How about bootleg tee-shirts( which are often better than the ones in the show)? Are you hungry or thirsty, well they got that too. The list goes on and on, you really can\u2019t grasp the true scope unless you see it first hand. However it\u2019s more than basic commerce, the idea of barter and trade is ever present, in fact it is one of the main elements that makes this little community thrive.\u00a0 Folks there are willing to exchange items of value (determined by the individuals engaged in the transaction) for other items of value and\/or services.\u00a0 The market of needs and desires drives this spontaneous little community from town to town.\u00a0 This to me, is an excellent albeit imperfect idea of what anarchic order can and would look like.<\/p>\n

Now I\u2019m sure some AnCap\u2019s would say \u201cmany of the folks at Dead shows are socialist\/statist.\u00a0 I would respond that you are totally missing the point.\u00a0 In the absence of a centralized administrative authority dictating how commerce should be done, these folks JUST DO IT!\u00a0 Yes there are \u201crules\u201d per se, but they are unspoken; the main one of which is don\u2019t screw anyone over.\u00a0 Why, you ask? Because in this anarchic market place reputation is EVERYTHING!\u00a0 If you follow the Dead from show to show and your are known to be disreputable few people will interact with you, and you will have a hard time surviving\/thriving.\u00a0 There is no monopolistic coercion to force people to do commerce with you.\u00a0 So you see, the \u201cAnarchy\u201d we speak of IS possible.\u00a0 Yes it will not be perfect, there is not an (anarchic) answer for every situation we may encounter (yet).\u00a0 However in the absence of The State, we as individuals and as a society will evolve to overcome the perceived obstacles the current nay-sayers bombard us with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DEADHEAD LAND \u201cSHAKEDOWN STREET\u201d SOUNDWALK While I was listening to the Dead and reminiscing about my tripped out teenage years, I remembered a curious thing.\u00a0 Anyone who\u2019s been to a Grateful Dead shows knows about \u201cShakedown Street\u201d.\u00a0 Here we have a completely spontaneous market place born out of necessity.\u00a0 As you stroll through you will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}