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Re: anarchy rules: "would we otherwise call it chaos"?
Agreed, Musick. Anarchy is the antithesis of "the rule of law".
One definition I consulted describes "rule" as "governing power".
In a state of anarchy, there is no governing power. Power doesn't reside in any single place or in any myriad of places, but power, at least brute power, does "govern" individual outcomes, however arbitrarily and unpredictably it may be exercised.
If power exercised arbitrarily by individuals everywhere is "governance", perhaps anarchy can rule, and chaos can reign, after all.
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