With local elections arriving, the overall consensus among American citizens is that the government is either up to no good or good for nothing, a variety of solutions have been created via the think-tank that is the mainstream culture. Aside from the red-and-blue battle that wages on between the GOP and Democratic Party, fringe groups have been amassed to take more specific, and what some may consider, more extreme stances. While the Tea Party movement and Occupy groups across the country set up specialized efforts to create ripples in the governmental water, I find that there is a different approach to take.

The form of, or lack thereof, government I am writing about might sound shocking if not thoroughly explained.

Anarchy, but more specifically Anarcho-Capitalism, is a free-market approach to a naturally free society. Though many of us have seen this ideal demonized, belittled and made to seem like a joke, I believe that there is some validity to this kind of civilization.

First, I would like to make it clear that Anarchy does not describe a community or society free of rules, but rather a society that is free of rulers.

For many Americans and groups of people, not only in the United States, there seems to be a reduction of responsibility. The nuclear family has been broken down, and the government, though considered ‘diverse’, has been corporatized and overcomplicated to ensure its own protection over the people. In an initially well-intentioned gesture to help the needy, the government has overstretched its boundaries and given a loophole for the lazy to stay unmotivated, and the ignorant to stay ignorant.

Anarchy, though not a miracle cure to save the world from degradation, would promote independence by forcing the intentionally lazy to adapt or become extinct, while it would also simultaneously increase the well-being and happiness of people who are already self-motivated.

Privatization of the police as well as many of the other government controlled jobs that have become necessary in today’s culture would become a competitive business, to provide each individual with the best product possible in an attempt to get their business. Money would be privatized to certain areas (as I will mention in a moment), and, working alongside the private businesses in each community, would help control inflation as well as other negative aspects of a large financial entity.

While crime wouldn’t screech to a halt, individuals would have to arm themselves and form small communities unique to that area’s beliefs and ideals, creating a sort of ‘wolf-pack’ that would defend people from hostile attacks. This sort of agreement was the initial foundation of the USA, while we were still in colonies and the concept of Federalism was still feasible. In this way, any type of person could live their own life how they decided, as long as they would be part of a group or could deal with the reprisals of said decisions.

Though it could be very possible that these makeshift colonies would become larger, eventually creating a new nation, this solution is temporary, and would give humanity a fresh start.

The government will never be able to truly and absolutely control everything, be it speech, safety, or thought. While this does not directly call for Anarchy, once combined with the effort to become more responsible and content at the same time, it is the only true existence a rational person could attest to.