IMPLICIT ANARCHY: How Society is Barely Governed
Another new concept (sort of): Implicit Anarchy
It's not entirely new but I'm building upon it in my own way. Specifically I build upon the fact that society isn't governed by force alone. People are moreso governed by the fear that if they step out of line nobody is going to back them up. This is a form of conditioning that leads to isolation of the criminal. There is also the possibility of social shaming and mob justice that prevents crime rather than police presence or surveillance.
Most healthy societies like ours in the West have an inherent desire for trust and cooperation which means that people will not steal from an honesty box, for example a small farm that produces eggs or a cake fridge bakery. For good people laws are not necessary, and the immoral and dishonest will find ways around those laws or ways to not get caught.
Human beings have to govern themselves to a large extent and I think reliance on a central authority to carry out "justice" in its corrupted rendition is a dangerous mistake leading us down the road to totalitarianism.
All the well meaning laws and economic regulations mean nothing to a large corporation that will simply bribe, lobby or intimidate the state and smaller businesses into surrender. You cannot always rely on a central state to fight these entities.
You've got to vote with your wallet and use your own power. A great example of this in the 2020s has been the return of internet piracy. The greed of streaming services, to the point of being essentially what a government would and should consider theft, has become so intolerable that many people have returned to pirating media rather than be extorted by Cable Television 2.0
People could boycott companies like Amazon to achieve the same thing. These corporations are corrupt and greedy but they exist because of a social contract between their customers and their workers. Without those customers and workers their ability to oppress and dominate will crumble.
Another very important factor in Implicit Anarchy is the Thin Blue Line which I'll build upon even further. My additional idea is the "Filled Prisons". Most prisons are operating at a 90%+ capacity. For example in the UK the prison system is about 98% full with 4,000 spaces left. In the Netherlands its about the same.
The police themselves only make up a tiny fraction of the population too. They can only police so many crimes, arrest so many people and they can only jail a fraction of those that they arrest. With these circumstances mass civil disobedience is not a matter of if but when people realise how weak the state really is. When they realise just how much of their oppressive "governance" is psychological conditioning and not real physical threat.
And this is what Implicit Anarchy is really about. In its meme form it is the great saying "You can just do things".
After writing this Implicit Anarchy becomes EXPLICIT ANARCHY :)
Note: I'll make a quick rundown of this idea