Anarchy is a political structure where there’s basically no one in charge, right? But wouldn’t that just create a power vacuum that would filled by organized crime, corporations, etc.? Then, after that power vacuum is filled, we’re right back at square one, and someone is in charge.
Are there any political theorists that have come up with a solution to this problem?
all of us, that’s what culture is. There are so so many things we only do because we’re brought up to consider it normal, a popular example being how you put back the shopping cart.
No one is going to punish you for just leaving it wherever, hell you could bring it home and it’s almost certain no one would really even care much about it, but yet most people put the cart back simply because it’s the right thing to do and we’d get a very strange and uncomfortable feeling in our stomachs if we didn’t.
Do you know how common it is in the US for people to just like… leave it? In germany theres the advantage that people have gotten accustomed to putting it back through the coin lock mechanism even if oftentimes the cart they use is now not locked. The problem is if strong factions arise where it will be hard for the rest of the public to sanction someone breaking rules. If it becomes more convenient to ignore then to enforce such a decentralized enforcement won’t be effective