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[SealyStar]

I don't know, I think a school covered in sports pictures would annoy me too.

Thing is that the whole school isn't covered in sports. Most of the school's boasting is about academic achievements of pupils, Ofsted ratings etc.
It was a single, short, corridor that the sports teams/physical education department got to put on certificates and pictures of sports things that the school has done well in.

That's way better than my school. Whole hallway of sports crap, and one little case tucked off to the side for... more intellectual competitions. And one poorly-kept bulletin board for the students' academic achievements.

It is possible that we go to the same school. Is said bulletin board on the right-hand side of the right-hand corridor on the first floor?

My school is only one floor, so I think the possibility is already disqualified by your "first floor" remark.

Also has a helluva lot more than two corridors.

[FearfulJesuit]

This is our best shot to undermine Citizens United.

New Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairwoman Mary Jo White is considering a rules change that would require corporations to disclose their political spending. The best part: this solution totally circumvents Congress, which is too flooded with corporate money to take action.

We must take back our democracy from corporate interests.

Yeah, democracy...except when the popularly elected won't do the right thing. Then we'll ask an unelected body to step in and do what's "for the democracy's own good"...

I'm a firm believer in popularly elected government for the time being, but there's got to be a better system we haven't figured out yet... Personally I'm in favor of the rules change, if it goes through, but not because I believe in Democracy and the will of the People against the One Percent. I'm in favor of corporate reform because I think society, like its government, needs checks and balances- not because out of a moral compunction that Democracy must Prevail. Populism leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

[Eric Blank]

Anarchy. We still haven't figured out how to make something both an anarchy and raise the life expectancy above 15. Oh, and keep the anarchy going and prevent someone else form stepping in and imposing their disgusting order.

[Graknorke]

I'm all for the oppression of the masses by the masses.
However that would work.

[Sirus]

Anarchy. We still haven't figured out how to make something both an anarchy and raise the life expectancy above 15. Oh, and keep the anarchy going and prevent someone else form stepping in and imposing their disgusting order.

I'm fairly certain there's no way to prevent that. I eagerly await being proved wrong , though.

[FearfulJesuit]

People need to be watched; find the best subset of them you can to do it. Eventually we'll sidestep the inherent paradox and have computers do the job, or at least help out.

[Xantalos]

Anarchy? All you need to do is make everyone forget that other people exist.

[Devling]

Isn't shit like this how dystopian novels start?

[Xantalos]

Isn't shit like this how dystopian novels start?

You are asking me.

[Devling]

Isn't shit like this how dystopian novels start?

You are asking me.

I am asking you Mr.Old god.

[Xantalos]

Isn't shit like this how dystopian novels start?

You are asking me.

I am asking you Mr.Old god.

Oh sorry, I meant to put the emphasis on are, implying that no matter what question on ethics, society, or governing rules of any kind you ask me, it'll turn everything into a dystopia.

[Devling]

Isn't shit like this how dystopian novels start?

You are asking me.

I am asking you Mr.Old god.

Oh sorry, I meant to put the emphasis on are, implying that no matter what question on ethics, society, or governing rules of any kind you ask me, it'll turn everything into a dystopia.

I am asking you Mr.Old god.

[Xantalos]

Isn't shit like this how dystopian novels start?

You are asking me.

I am asking you Mr.Old god.

Oh sorry, I meant to put the emphasis on are, implying that no matter what question on ethics, society, or governing rules of any kind you ask me, it'll turn everything into a dystopia.

I am asking you Mr.Old god.

Yes, this is how a dystopic novel could start, assuming one person (this would be me) gamed the system and remembered that everyone else existed and had engineered a way into this system to have the unaware everyone else do whatever s/he wanted.

[Reelya]

Anarchy. We still haven't figured out how to make something both an anarchy and raise the life expectancy above 15. Oh, and keep the anarchy going and prevent someone else form stepping in and imposing their disgusting order.

I'm fairly certain there's no way to prevent that. I eagerly await being proved wrong , though.

That works if you stick to the "Anarchy = every man for himself + chaos" theory. Anarchist political theory is a whole different thing to that. Which make the individualistic chaos thing a straw man. It's clearly a straw man argument because it usually paints anarchism in a specific way, debunks the model they themselves created for the pure purposes of debunking, ignores any links etc which shows that the very definition of anarchism in the political sense is completely different from the straw man they just tore down, and goes right back to the start. Circular logic.

First up, the idea that anarchism is opposed to "order". Not true. Anarchism is opposed to the state as an institution. It's statists who hold that anyone opposed to the state are opposed to "order", in the exact same sense that anyone opposed to GW Bush was opposed to "freedom". There are broadly speaking a speactrum from anarcho-capitalists to anarcho-syndicalists (i know i'm missing out a lot of different ideologies but it's the main currents). Both of these currents propose some other "order". Neither of them proposed an every-man-for-himself individualism, which is something only held by a few fringe figures and teenage punks.

[Max White]

From what I understand anarchy in a political sense is about removing as much government as possible? So regulatory bodies would be removed.
I actually haven't got a very good idea of how it is meant to work. People tell me it is left wing, but left wing is historically attached to the socialist movement that gives government a lot of control, so who the hell even knows...