Comments on: The Anarchist In All Of Us http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2009/03/02/the-anarchist-in-all-of-us/ The Revolution Will Be Doodled! Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:44:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Core http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2009/03/02/the-anarchist-in-all-of-us/comment-page-1/#comment-5372 Core Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:36:25 +0000 http://anarchyinyourhead.com/?p=225#comment-5372 <b>"I obey the laws most of the time too. Sometimes I comply because I agree. I agree we shouldn’t hurt people or steal or defraud. Mostly I comply because I have a healthy fear of the retribution, the threat of violence if I dare disobey. I aim to misbehave, but when it comes to openly disobeying I pick my battles carefully. I refuse to sublimate my own good judgment and common sense to some consensus notion of right and wrong. We all go along to get along to some extent, but presumably there is some small part of all of us that remains secretly defiant of that which we know in our hearts to be wrong. In this sense, we are all closet anarchists to some degree. The fundamental difference for those who actually call themselves anarchists is honesty and consistency."</b> I have to say, your wise, and that what I quoted you saying struck a good chord with me. “I obey the laws most of the time too. Sometimes I comply because I agree. I agree we shouldn’t hurt people or steal or defraud. Mostly I comply because I have a healthy fear of the retribution, the threat of violence if I dare disobey. I aim to misbehave, but when it comes to openly disobeying I pick my battles carefully. I refuse to sublimate my own good judgment and common sense to some consensus notion of right and wrong. We all go along to get along to some extent, but presumably there is some small part of all of us that remains secretly defiant of that which we know in our hearts to be wrong.

In this sense, we are all closet anarchists to some degree. The fundamental difference for those who actually call themselves anarchists is honesty and consistency.”

I have to say, your wise, and that what I quoted you saying struck a good chord with me.

]]> By: Agape http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2009/03/02/the-anarchist-in-all-of-us/comment-page-1/#comment-3912 Agape Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:18:29 +0000 http://anarchyinyourhead.com/?p=225#comment-3912 You know, biblically the angels are assholes ;p The demons are the ones tempting you into all the fun stuff, the angels are the ones torching cities to the ground when there are a lot of people doing fun stuff there ^^ You know, biblically the angels are assholes ;p The demons are the ones tempting you into all the fun stuff, the angels are the ones torching cities to the ground when there are a lot of people doing fun stuff there ^^

]]> By: anarchytoday http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2009/03/02/the-anarchist-in-all-of-us/comment-page-1/#comment-3903 anarchytoday Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:06:33 +0000 http://anarchyinyourhead.com/?p=225#comment-3903 Interesting article. The technical term for what you have described is called "Confirmation Bias" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias should get you started on exploring this idea more. Interesting article.

The technical term for what you have described is called “Confirmation Bias”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias should get you started on exploring this idea more.

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