Anarchy is about organizing human life without being coerced or forced. I've pointed to a number of examples where in our everyday lives we organize ourselves without being forced. One example we talked about in class is the Pan Tram bus -- people generally gather at the bus stops and orderly board the bus without being told or forced to do it by an official. There are many other possible examples.
Think about your own life. Describe an example of anarchism in everyday life. When do you organize yourself without being coerced or forced?
When you enter a restaurant you take your seat and wait patiently for the waitress/waiter to take your order. You do not find your way to the kitchen and help yourself to what ever you think looks good. Also you do not go around the restaurant eating off of unoccupied plates.
ReplyDeleteAlicia White
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When you go to the dining hall and wait in line for lunch. There is not a governing official there to force you to get in line. Another factor is that you can also pick your own seat and table and sit with your friends rather than have someone pick for you.
ReplyDeleteBlake Johnson
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When you are driving you obey the lights by stopping at the red light and go on green. It is second nature to obey that and no one is in the passenger seat forbidding you to go on a red light. At the four way stop signs in Shepherdstown you stop and wait for all of the drivers that arrived at their stop sign before you to go first. You wait your turn without authority.
ReplyDeleteCarleigh Underwood
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Sorry dude, but that is a terrible example. That is a completely government constructed system reinforced by a multitude of laws and penalties.
DeleteWhen you are in a library you obey librarians and civilized and quiet. Also you use the computers accordingly, if all the computers are occupied people just wait quietly and are patient. Another factor is that you can go look for a book that you want or need and the librarians can't tell you what book you have to get.
ReplyDeleteJuan-Carlos Mao-Alston
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But you are not doing that on your own free will. You are doing that because that is what is required of you by the library not because you chose to do so. Not following the rules by staying quiet would lead to ejection from the library. Therefore they use a form of punishment to keep order
DeleteAn example that came to mind to me was when I was hiking, and I feel this is a particularly good example because it takes place outside the bounds of civilization for the most part, since it was deep in the woods.
ReplyDeleteWhen two groups of hikers are both approaching each other on a narrow trail, they naturally avoid each other without confrontation, both groups desiring just to stay out of the way of the other. Although it is hard to say this is a completely freely developed anarchic system because there is in fact an unwritten rule that the hikers going uphill have right of way. Its quite difficult to name a system that is completely free of any coercion, since that is the primary drive by which we are prompted to do anything, but I suppose the difference is whether or not its an 'Overlord' type of authority performing the coercion, as opposed to a group of hikers feeling coerced to step off of the trail so that the other group can pass by without difficulty.
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DeleteAlso, it is a common practice to use sticks to mark an "X" on the trail if something dangerous is encountered. This warns others of the possible danger. However, there is no law enforcing that this practice be carried out.
DeleteKatelyn Amspacher
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When you go the mall you choose wherever you want to shop. You are not told where to shop. You either go into stores you like and browse for something to buy or don't go into it at all.
ReplyDeleteTyrek Collier
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When ever you mow your grass. Typically if you own your own yard you mow it, nobody is telling you to do so unless its your parents. However if you are an adult and mow your own lawn you do it not because you are being forced to but because if you dont the grass will grow tall an not look as good which is your incentive to doing it not any government official impeding on you to get your house chores done.
ReplyDeleteBen Howar
PSCI100:02
I agree. Mowing your lawn is a personal choice. If you choose to live with tall grass then that's your own business. Great example of anarchy!
DeleteAmanda Malave
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When people first wake up in the morning we tend to have a few things that we automatically do. One, we either wash our face or shower, then brush our teeth, moving forward to getting dressed and prepared for the day as well as locate a source of nutrients.
ReplyDeleteWhenever you go out to the movies, you are free to choose whatever movie you want. There is no one there telling you that you have to see a certain one, unless of course the one you wanted to see is sold out. In that case you don't go into a riot, you just choose another movie or decide to stay in that night.
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ReplyDeleteAn example of Anarchy would be study groups. It is a form of Direct Action in response to a test or project etc that utilizes Mutual Aid with Free Association. Overall it is a form of Self Management in the sense that you are trading knowledge with one another in order to expand your knowledge of certain subject matter.
ReplyDeleteMatthew McNuss 100-02
Anarchism in my life would be the everyday routine with me and my roommates. Two bathroom for five girls, seriously? My roommate and I wake at the same time, but she always uses the bathroom first and I use it after her. I use the shower before she does and she uses it after me. We take turns cooking dinner without being asked and we all do our chores to maintain the apartment without being asked. We fell into a routine without anyone dictating anything.
ReplyDeleteKathy Huynh
PSCI 100:03
An example of everyday anarchism could be grocery shopping. Other than TV commercials telling you about different businesses, you can go to whichever store you please and pick out anything to your liking. Nobody is forcing you to buy a certain brand. An even better example of this kind of self management would be having a large garden in which you grown your own food.
ReplyDeleteJoey Diaz PSCI 100.03
An example of Anarchy would be waiting in line at the bathroom. People generally wait their turn to use the stall or the urinal one does not pull another out of the stall while he or she is taking a poop. Instead, one waits for the person in front of them to finish going to the bathroom. There is generally no one in the bathroom forcing us to wait our turn, but we do anyways.
ReplyDeleteMy example of everyday anarchy is using an elevator. Most of the time people organize themselves in an orderly manner to get on the elevator. Before the people get on the elevator they let the people already on get off then they press their button and move to the back of the elevator to let more people on. There is a certain way to politely use the elevator that no one forces us to use.
ReplyDelete-Alicia Himes
PSCI 100.02
An everyday example of anarchical organization is standing in a food buffet line. Nobody is forcing you to stand in orderly fashion behind the person in front of you and wait for them to get their food before you get yours. Even though nobody would be stopping you, you don't just go butting in front of every person who happens to be standing in front of each item of food that you want.
ReplyDeleteKayla McFarland PSCI 100.03
In Washington D.C., they use the Metro rail system as a form of transportation. Every day, the passengers wait along the sides of the platform for the Metro to arrive. Once it arrives, they wait for other passengers to exit before boarding. Once inside, they can either sit or stand and wait until a seat becomes available. This is a form on anarchism because there is no one forcing the passengers to do any of these things. It is just a natural way of doing things for frequent Metro passengers.
ReplyDeleteHaley Greene
PSCI 100.02
The first thing that came to mind of everyday anarchical organization is when we go shopping. After we have found what we need or want we stand in an organized line to check out. Nobody is forcing us to stand in a orderly line. I see this everyday at my work.
ReplyDeleteNicole Ruane
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I would like to believe that anarchy is inherit in all of us and most desirable. I can see this especially when it comes to the mundane aspects of living, such as bathing, waking up, and the like; however, that is what is not on my mind. Anarchy would appear to be much more than that.
ReplyDeleteWe have the individualist and the collectivist on each end of the spectrum in anarchist thought. They hold to the idea of rules without rulers, control of one’s self, and self-governance which again is desirable. With that said, it can be generalized that we as people are social creatures, “No man is an island, entire of itself.” (John Donne) We enjoy (for the most part) the company of others where we share ideas, express or likes and dislikes. As an individualist, there ought to be no contracts, with the collectivists there are contracts of consent.
Of the anarchical types, the individualist would be the hardest. They have to know who and what they are at all times. They must be ever vigilant. Once they contract, they bind themselves ever so slightly. When I say they must know who and what they are, they know they are natural, living, and sentient beings. They are not dead instruments of fiction, like that of a corporation. A corporation needs an agent to speak for it and act for it. On the other hand, the collectivist thought appears to be more problematic. You have individuals who come together to create a collective. They all have shared interests. It could be susceptible to group think should those common interests become not so common after sometime. The key, in my opinion would be realizing that at all times; the collective is the "created" and never greater or equal than the creators themselves. And those creators would be those individualist’s who banded together.
Kevin Wetzel
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An example of everyday anarchy is a pickup game of basketball or football or really any sport. In this situation, there are rules that must be followed that everyone agrees on. No one enforces these rules, yet everyone nearly always follows the rules. You can see examples of this everywhere, from a group of college aged friends playing a game of basketball, all the way down to elementary school aged children playing a game of soccer during recess.
ReplyDeleteJoseph Smith
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Anarchy is in a lot of our every day life. The simple fact that we do not do things because it isn't civil is anarchy, we do this because we are not barbarians at heart. A specific example of every day anarchy is, me going to class, I most certainly do not want to go to class, and even sometimes I don't because nobody is forcing me but most of the time I go even though i tend to hate everything about it, and want to do ridiculous things, but i do not.
ReplyDeleteDylan Owens
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There are so many times in everyday life that we organize ourselves. Going to class could be one, but if you hate it then why would you bother to go. I go to class because I love to learn and I would have gone to college without someone forcing me. For me there was less pressure to go to college because my dad didn't go to college. For the football game, everyone stood in lien and waited for their tickets.
ReplyDeleteKayla Piechowiak
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Another example of anarchy is football games. I went to the Shepherd game on Saturday and I realized that there were no police telling where people to sit. When a person would sit down they would automatically move in towards the center of the bleacher to make more room. No governing person was telling people to move, people just did.
ReplyDeleteBrenna Rose
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That's actually a very good example.
DeleteDanielle McManus
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I thought that a great example was the pickup game, but I guess I was just a little too late. Instead, another instance of everyday anarchy could be a neighborhood dog park. Although the parks and rec. department of the city most likely set it up, there is no authority at the actual site. Everyone participates in an orderly manner assuring that their dogs have fun without (hopefully) getting hurt!
ReplyDeleteHaley Smith
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Until someone does get hurt and they press charges. That was still a good example though.
DeleteDanielle McManus
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When you go to the grocery store, you browse the store for whatever you want to purchase, and then you form a single file line in whichever checkout line that you choose. No one tells you to form a line, it is just something that you do, then fill your cart with grocery bags, load them into your vehicle, and leave.
ReplyDeleteShannon Lyons
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Great example of anarchy!
DeleteAmanda Malave
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An example of anarchy in my life is when I am hitting with my teammates in the batting cages. We have an order that we go in and take turns. Nobody tells us what order we have to hit in but we just fall in. When the bucket is empty, we pick the balls up and continue with our order.
ReplyDeleteMark McCormick
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An example of Anarchy in my life is when I stand in line to wait for a redbox movie. There is no higher authority is there to tell us how to stand in line and what movie we are to get. we stand there, wait for our turn, select our movie, pay and leave.
ReplyDeleteKevin Cantarilho
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An example of anarchy in my life is when I go to mcdonalds and get food. There is nobody at the door giving me directions. I go and wait in line (if there is one) and order what I want and pay then sit down where ever I want and enjoy my delicious two McChickens and two McDoubles.
ReplyDeleteNick Bakos
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An example of anarchy in my life is when i stand in line in the dark room and wait to use the chemicals. No one is in there enforcing us to play nice with one another but there we are standing in line, all eager with our blank piece of paper in our hands waiting to see how our image will develop. When it is your turn you work quickly knowing others are waiting but also know that they are respecting you and your work just like you did for the people in front of you, and then you repeat the process.
ReplyDeleteZoe Robinson
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Another example of anarchy is when i go to a grocery store. I walk i grab a buggy if i need one and i go gather the things i came for and proceed to checkout. There is no one there telling me i have to buy this or that nor is there anybody telling me how much i can get or how fast to get it. I simply go in and act civilized without force being used.
ReplyDeleteDemetrius Dixon
An example could be when at a four way stop intersection, you stop and wait for the car that pulls up first to go before you go yourself. Same could be applied to a traffic light, you sit and wait for the light to change green before you go.
ReplyDeleteRyan Miller
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An example of anarchy in my life would be at a fast food restaurant line. No one fights about whose turn it is to order. They automatically know whose turn it is by who was there first. Also, there is no one telling you how to stand, what to order or when you can order.
ReplyDeleteAmanda Malave
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My example of anarchy in my everyday life would be what I eat and when I eat it. When I go into a restaurant I don't have someone over my shoulder telling me what to order. They're not staying in my house telling me I cant have cereal at midnight or cake when I wake up.
ReplyDeleteDanielle McManus
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My example of anarchy is when people go to the courts to play pick up basketball. Players do not have assigned teams. They just gather themselves in their random teams and play.
ReplyDeleteMike Reed
My example of anarchy is watching television. I decide what channel I want to watch, what show I want to watch, and when I want to watch it. It could be three in the morning or one in the afternoon.
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