... A second element of bioregionalism is anarchy. I hesitate using that fine word because it's been so distorted by reactionary shitheads to scare people that it's connotative associations have become bloody chaos and fiends amok, rather than political decentralization, self-determination, and a commitment to social equality. Anarcy doesn't mean out of control; it means out of their contorl. Anarchy is based upon a sense of interdependent self-reliance, the conviction that we as a community, or a tight, small-scale feteration of communities, can mind our own business, and can make decisions regarding our individual and communal lives and gladly accept the responsibilities and consequences of those decisions. Further, by consolidating decision makeing at a local, face-to-face level without having to constantly push information through insane bureacratic hierarchies, we can act more quickly in relation to natrual systems and, since we live there, hopefully with more knowledge and care...
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