The anarchists are back at it, with another protest at another G20 meeting. I continue to wonder: do they have any idea what anarchy is? Are they aware how unlikely the economic conditions that fattened their trust funds would have been under an anarchic system? And why are they still surprised when they’re pulverized by police? Do they think they’d fare any better under a decentralized system of warring factions?

No, they don’t think of any of these things. Perhaps one of my biggest pet peeves about the ignorance of anarchists is that, while they repeatedly call for abolishing money, they neglect to note that money is at its most basic a measure of value. I would be happy to concede that money is the root of all evil when they convince me that inches are the root of all shortness. And I would be happy to concede that security is unnecessary right after they negotiate North Korea into anarchism.

* – n.b.: I’m excepting anarcho-capitalists here. While I find the general tenets of anarcho-capitalism to be unfeasible in our lifetimes, I’ll note that its adherents almost never call for “breaking the system” by breaking people’s stuff like so many hormonal teenage vandals. Man, I hate anarcho-syndicalists.