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Originally Posted by spellbanisher
There will always be governments, because there will always be people who strive to consolidate their power, and as long as there are people who live only in their own worlds, the wolves will always be able to manipulate and control people. Don't think that if you lay down your weapon that someone else will not pick it up and use it against you. The only way an anarcho-capitalist society could emerge is through worldwide revolution. Those in power will never willingly relinquish it, and so the only way to remove them is by force. But the history of revolutions has shown that they more often than not lead to totalitarianisms and terrors.
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That is the old way of thinking, through antiquity and even postmodernism. Some of us are living in the new era, just as some never accepted postmodernism, or modernism for that matter.
An anarcho-capitalist culture will emerge one realization at a time by definition. We don't want or need power, so there is no need to take power from those who currently "have" it.
I have been thinking lately that Mickey Mouse might make a good candidate for a perpetual copyright. Making copyright decisions on a case by case basis might not be trivial, but it might be useful. Of course there are those who think that all copyright's should be perpetual.
A speculative scenario I find frightening, Imagine that a good portion of the culture's books were produced by 5 or 6 companies. Now imagine that some psychotic ceo decides to merge all these companies and then proceeds to stop printing books. What of your copyright then??
