Democracy is not a form of government. It is a point of view. Those who believe in democracy believe in only one thing- that each human has a point of view. And that point of view is above everything.
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We put great faith in institutions. These institutions- the government, the church or the temple or the mosque, the university- govern our behavior. They govern our behavior in very far reaching ways. They form the foundations of our perceptions about the world. But more importantly, they shape our perceptions about ourselves. These institutions shape our self-image.
But what are these institutions? Who made them? Why were they made? What is their role? What is the hierarchy? Are these institutions above us? Or are we above institutions? Do the principles in those institutions actually constitute the law to which we are eternally bound? Is our sovereignty restricted to the framework of decrees spelt out by these institutions? Is it truly our duty to safeguard them?
This article has one objective- to dismantle the facade of institutions that seek to govern or regulate individual behavior.
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At all times, all human beings all at once gravitate toward one thing- freedom. Scores of epic battles have been fought for freedom and several eloquently written books of the stoic tales of sacrifice, gallantry and honor gather dust in several libraries or, perhaps, are perused by some genuinely fond of such tales.
To fight for freedom is one thing. And the winner is not always freed. To understand freedom is to be free. What is freedom?
We know a very prosaic definition of freedom, which we infinitely glorify. Freedom is not merely the condition in which people of the same ethnic heridity can reside in a geographically unbroken expanse. Freedom does not mean the rule of those who speak your tongue or whose genes are more similar to yours than are others’. It is a political definition of freedom, a definition designed for modification, litigation and abuse.
Freedom goes beyond governance. Freedom goes beyond deciding the lawmaker of a people. To be free is not to fill the available institutions with people to whom you liken. To be free is to create an institution to fulfill a purpose, to safeguard things worth safeguarding and then to destroy or at least abase the glory of those institutions once their purpose is served.
Still, the question persists. What the f is freedom?
Each individual is sovereign. He is entitled to his own beliefs. People form a society with a homogenous culture because infants are brought up within the framework of existing belief systems. You and I never had the choice of selecting our own beliefs. We never had the freedom to inculcate our own beliefs, to look at the world without beliefs. We were not allowed to see the world. We were taken, our fingers tugged, and held on the ledge of a window with ainted panes and shown the world.
Freedom is when exactly this does not happen. Anyone who gives you a belief system is your enemy. Your religious cleric is your enemy. Your religion is your enemy. Your moral science teacher is your enemy. Your parent dictating a list of "goods" and "bads" is your enemy. Your judiciary is your enemy. Your government is your enemy. If he gives you a system of beliefs and enforces it on you, then he is your enemy.
We were not born with an ID tag. Nobody is someone by virtue of his birth. It is he who must make him who he is. Freedom is when an infant child is taken on the street and is allowed to see, hear and see and here more, experience and experiment, reflect and meditate, ponder, wonder, think and finally conclude on what the world is.
Freedom is anarchy.
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We have learnt a very perverted definition of anarchy. Anarchy does not mean chaos. It does not mean that people are trying to kill each other. Anarchy does not have to be bad.
Anarchy is a state where everyone is supremely sovereign. Often people debate between whether men corrupt power or whether power corrupts men. The answer is: neither. Power is that influence, which one person or institution exerts on another, which leads the other to make a choice or a decision that is born out of fear or even faith or anything that is not his own conscious, independent, rational thought. The choice is not his "sovereign own". That is power and that itself is corruption.
Institutions governing individual behaviors were formed only to function as watchdogs. Their job was only to see that the sovereign choices of one man do not trample the sovereignty of another. That is all. Nothing beyond this. These institutions have no further role, no further significance. Their laws are not binding upon us, nor is their legacy something that we must split our societies for.
Governments are not worth it. Religions are not worth it. Nothing is worth it.
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There is only one form of society where everyone can be happy, or can be said to have an equal chance of being happy. That state is anarchy. It is the state where each man is free to make any choice that he may wish to make, provided that it does not encroach on the sovereignty of another.
That is all. That is anarchy and that anarchy is complete freedom.
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