Hi Theo,
I don't understand your question ? Aren't we supposed to raise topics for debate? This is something I see as a glaring anomaly, but I am more concerned about the Persistent Vegetative State issue that was almost completely ignored when I raised it.
Another topic I would like to explore is attitudes towards 'State'. You mentioned the 'class' of leaders earlier, other people are strident anarchists (assuming you're not!) who see it as their mission to oppose all manifestations of state structure and ordering. Several people I have met in Mensa while I was SIGs Officer found it very hard to relate to me because they had a hang-up with dealing with people 'in authority'. That isn't wild supposition on my part, that is what some of those same people have told me. I had a hang-up with that, to be honest, because I don't see myself as any different before I became SIGs Officer, while I was SIGs Officer, or now that I am not. I'm still the same 'me' as I ever was, though hopefully a little wiser.
So I don't have a particular opinion to promote, I would just like to see what other members think of when they think about 'the State' and what is right or wrong about it, and maybe learn something.
BTW, doesn't it strike you as odd how well organised anarchists are ?
Cheers,
Mark Griffin
I have no knowledge of the organising skills of anarchists. Anarchy seems to mean "without a leader", at least, of course, the Greek root does. There’s a well-known Biblical proverb "The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands" (Proverbs 30:27; AV) which illustrates that organisation can arise spontaneously if each individual does its bit. The expression "descent into anarchy" is presumably a caricature put about by the archons of what anarchistic programmes inevitably lead to.
Theo