Jenny+L

Self definition of government: established structure of power enforced to control and guide citizens.

When I was a young naive kid I was taught by my friends about the life style of Anarchy. They lived by the rule of anarchy and the concepts that followed: no rules, no government to tell you what to do, fend for yourself yet help others, the basics. Being so young I was never very intrigued with the government or how it worked; but this new idea made me feel like I understood the main essentials that we as a society base our daily lives on. Converting, conforming, norms, they were all part of the system. My friends that thought they were anarchists were highly against most of what the government stood for. The anarchy point of view un-doubtfully interested me more than the standard, typical republic concepts, yet I couldn't help but to wonder how you fight against a "system" that you are a part of.

As time went on and my interests became more consumed with figuring out this system, I came to realize, without input of my friends, that anarchy is simple a good plan, a great idea that would never happen. We the people are too into ourselves and our own lives to concentrate on the others of our over populated planet, not to mention our greed and arrogance of an average individual has yet to be surpassed. It didn’t take my friends long to slip into the patterns of the system, shaping their lives into who they are today: going to college, working for unions, etc. That is when I started to think on how the government is a factory, and we are simply the products. The government is nothing without the people. We are their income, their taxes, and their guinea pigs. They depend on us, and we have to follow their rules and morals to get by. We should be wealthy, educated, your average good citizen. This is when I realized how much anarchy would destroy. Our country is being destroyed by a highly watched system, run by many educated, wealthy citizens and we are still failing as a whole. We have laws for and against virtually anything and everything; imagine if there were no laws at all; democracy is the closest system that we can depend on without causing chaos. Government is tolerable only when opposed to anarchy. Being infatuated with how the government works and how we all seem to fall into it’s place since about the age of 13, I finally comprehend it at the age of 18. I am going to college; I have expectations to be met. I have to make money to survive, that has turned into the main goal for an American. When I was younger the government’s expectations weren’t so high; now they are utterly intolerable; depending on the system that we based our lives on for so long, only to fail.