I'm curious to understand what you mean by that. Anarchism is self-government. It's the rejection of one person having power over another, which is a very beautiful principle. Because I think the act of using power over other people humiliates the person using power as much as it humiliates the person subject to it.
I've written about it myself. Anarchism is, unfortunately, very widely misunderstood, and I think, deliberately denigrated by defenders of the current system, who, funnily enough, may benefit from the current system.
I think "Anarchy" was the first one that we kind of thought we had something going on. "Anarchy in the UK." You had a quote at that time. You said, "We're not into music.
Because, he says, I'm not a Westerner. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
And I think what's interesting is the whole trajectory from quote unquote "dumpster diving free-gan," sort of interested in anarchy and sort of going from job to job, and then bam you're a CEO and you have this multimillion dollar company, and you're this big success story.
general historical forces interacting with human nature. The first historical decline I call the pacification process. Until 5,000 years ago, people everywhere lived in a state of anarchy without central government. What was life like in this so-called state of nature? This is a question that thinkers have speculated on for hundreds of years. Thomas Hobbes famously said that an a state of nature the life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and
few of whom bothered to ask permission my runaway sentence now keeps company with Anarchist hedness would be witches political activists of many descriptions and quite a few will behaved women it has been featured in Cosmo girl the
Let's say it's about understanding that some restrictions you can't change, others you can, and there are institutional restrictions too. There are many anarcho capitalists, who are dedicated to criticizing, and incredibly they do so with more violence towards liberals. And many of them actually criticize me, which truly makes no sense because it is precisely the Nirvana fallacy.
We are not liberal fools. That's what some anarchist liberals suggested, meaning that we basically open everything on the first day. So in that, in that context, of course.
So our brain's far more like the battery on our phone than we let ourselves believe. So extreme anarchy, extreme autonomy.
It's literally true. It's something like a version of anarchy. But it's not anarchy as chaos. It's anarchy where you have a collective of autonomous bodies who are all working towards the same goal.
But it's not anarchy as chaos. It's anarchy where you have a collective of autonomous bodies who are all working towards the same goal. And that's the sort of methodology.
Of course, in its extreme versions, it's a kind of nasty libertarianism, of individualism, of doing whatever you want. That's not the anarchism I believe in. I believe in an anarchism of putting the community above all.
That's not the anarchism I believe in. I believe in an anarchism of putting the community above all. And communities, through democratic assemblies and new habits of direct democracy, govern themselves, and indeed, make rules themselves,
It is depressing coming back to Britain, dealing my life in Syria, and Palestine, and global warming. And as an anarchist, you can imagine that they might be complicated.
I tell you what. There is also Anarchy for Him. Have you smelled it?
When I was 11 or 12, my parents would let me go to New York by myself on the train, stay with relatives, hang around anarchist bookstores and Union Square. I wonder how many parents in the audience are thinking about sending their 12-year-old on a train from Philly to New York.
and how it is you find your first customers. it's like an anarchic kind of art collective of graffiti artists and civil activists who exist as this kind of shadowy force
It's one of the best ways of solving problems. It's an anarchy. I'm an anarchist. In life, we are making bread.
We have to decide that which is capitalist and that which is not capitalist. A lot of the anarchist networks in Athens have this slogan.
We know that the book exists. The can of Anarchy for Him scented Axe, and start spraying the entire six-foot radius around you.
It's anarchy. And then we did ClickHole.
And near anarchy was again loosed upon the gymnasium.
I like to be anarchist-- He's still doing it.
And he's an anarchist.
But these were not anarchists who were specifically out to create a decentralized system that would be unstoppable.
We've got something here. I think "Anarchy" was the first one that we kind of thought we had something going on. "Anarchy in the UK." You had a quote at that time.
And the bigger aspect is just everything that was going on culturally around you guys. You mentioned "Anarchy in the UK" before, being the song where you felt things clicking.
And also anarcho-libertarian utopias.
And he was an anarchist like we were.
where a group of anarchists were planning, supposedly, to try to blow up a bridge. It's not the-- Only al Qaeda and jihadi militants is not the only form of terrorism out there,
He's an anarchist," which kind of limited conversations -- possibilities a lot.
the sort of anarchy kind of -- Nicholas de Monchaux: Yeah.
And then there's Rothbardian anarcho-capitalist.
So from that, what is now today, and maybe you can talk about the evolution, is your, philosophy, economics philosophy. You've described yourself as an anarcho capitalist, market anarchist, libertarian. That's the ideal. And then maybe in practice and reality, you've said that you're more of a minarchist.
Gustave Landauer was a very interesting anarchist, a German Jewish pacifist who was kicked to death by the German Army in 1919.
I've been called the copyright anarchist.
you mentioned I'm an anarchist.
I like things that work within genre and then fuck with the genre in some way. You mentioned kind of the anarchic environment that you work in when you make your films. Does that bleed into when you write or is writing totally solo?
Kids with, like, yellow mohawks-- At least we still have anarchy. Don't we? Here at Google, we still have anarchy, don't we?
The revitalizing shower gel from Axe. I don't remember what anarchy smelled like, but it's not that. I tell you what.
It all just blew back. Now here's a tip with Anarchy for Her. You don't just spray it.
-We reached a state of anarchy we can no longer ignore.
And there's a wonderful anarchist called Peter Kropotkin.
And the bigger aspect is just everything that was going on culturally around you guys. And so we went to record "Anarchy," and we carried on using this guy, Dave Goodman, who was still smoking 1,000
And the bigger aspect is just everything that was going on culturally around you guys. You were telling me about "Anarchy in the UK," how it came together, how you recorded it.
And the bigger aspect is just everything that was going on culturally around you guys. We were rehearsing to do the "Anarchy in the UK" tour and promote "Anarchy in the UK." EMI sent a limo down to where we were rehearsing.
And it's this group of anarchists and but yeah.
Certainly I'm aware of the libertarian-anarcho capitalist thing.
What you're talking about is anarchy.