The best concentration camps in the world are the public schools.
It is in the schools that the children are taught to concentrate their minds on collectivism; It is in the schools that the child is taught to worship their country and their government and to become "patriots"; It is in the schools that the child is first taught to ignore their religions and their consciences and love their country above their families and their individuality; It is in the schools that bright minds become the minds of parroting puppets where what they are taught to believe to be true is more important than what their young hearts actually know to be true; It is in the schools that the minds are rotted and all that is holy is traded for all that is agreeable to the group; It is in the schools where the heart becomes hardened and the mind becomes confused and controlled.
It is in the schools where true freedom dies.
Is true freedom anarchy?
Anarchy is an ideology and ideologies are hard to define in just one word.
And yet we have loads of people on such forums who will do just that.
You just said true freedom dies in schools. Very few works for something that isn't easy to define. However you could have attempted to answer my question instead of passing it off.
I could say, "Yes, true freedom is anarchy", but then I would have to define an interpretation of anarchy that would make it so.
I would need to justify the statement that "true freedom is anarchy" and I think it is impossible to do that and make it inclusive of every definition of anarchy in a few short paragraphs, if at all.
I did say, "It is in the schools where true freedom dies." By that I meant individuality is taken from the individual and a collectivist mindset is instilled. The belief in authority starts in the schools and stays with the collectivist until they either wake up to the fact that they are an individual who has a right to self ownership or they die.
True freedom is to own yourself and your actions and to be responsible for what you do or say. True freedom is not being controlled by other human beings. When others control you, you are not free - you are a slave.
Well, I think you're wrong.
The first reason I think you're wrong is because I know what a school that takes away individuality looks like, and it's not in America. It's in China where they're producing robots.
The second reason I think you're wrong is that you can teach collectivism and teach individuality at the same time.
Anarchy by it's very nature is both the most free and one of the least free ways of living. Freedom because you can do what you like whenever you like, and least free because other people can do what they like whenever they like, and chances are you aren't going to be top of that pile.
Freedom is a balance. It can never be total. People feel more free in countries where there is enough security. I've been to southern Africa, and at night you don't go walking around the streets, it's too dangerous. This isn't freedom. Go to Far East Asia and walking the streets at night is no problem in most areas. You still want to be careful, but that's life.
There are lots of things that make up freedom, the feeling of being free. A collective sense of community might be the result of that. Having people grow up into decent human beings, that understand the rules, that follow the rules makes people more free. Yes, they've been "indoctrinated", we all are, that is what society is, indoctrination into a certain way. Culture is a thing that the people do, because they've learned to do that thing, or appreciate something.
In China people love seeing hand written characters, I personally think it's boring. Why? Because it wasn't drilled into me as a kid.
I've lived in Germany, a place that had a collective (as West Germany) get together to think about what happened in WW2. Racism is much lower there than in Austria (which was told it was the victim of German aggression) and East Germany (where the Soviets didn't care as long as you were a good Communist) and tolerance is higher, and it's a better place to live.