JCWisc at aol.com:
> God, I hope so. Airplanes? Forget airplanes. How about steel plowshares,
> reapers, drill presses, lathes, transistor radios, sewing machines, tractors,
> vaccines, clocks? In answer to the question of whether any of these things
> will exist in the future anarchist utopia, it appears that two basic answers
> have been forthcoming: No, and Maybe. Plus we'll have to somehow
> non-coercively disperse the population. I'm glad we clarified that. I agree
> with Doug on this one. "Nein, danke. Next Utopia please."
So we're really not done with airplanes. Good. Now, do you all want to tell me who you're going to coerce, and how, in order to get the airplanes, steel plowshares, and so forth? Remember, I'm one of these Minute-Particulars fellows, and I want to know just whose head the gun is going to be pointing at, who's going to be holding it, and how often the trigger is going to be squeezed -- because it's been my personal experience that with that sort of arrangmenet I might be on one end or the other of the gun. Or both, in sequence. As I may have mentioned, I have at time carried a loaded rifle on behalf of the US ruling class, and I have a lively impression of the experience and its implications.
As a side note, unrelated to the above but necessary to mention: anarchism is no more necessarily utopian than socialism, liberalism, classical conservatism, or feudalism. Given the frequency of flying _canards_, I'm wondering if we'll soon be hearing about bearded guys in long raincoats carrying spherical bombs with brighly lit fuses? Quack, quack.
-- Gordon