I've never posted and so I'm going to try to do so now.
When I was a high school student with the Jesuits and joined the debating
society, we learned always to define terms before debating. Over the years, I
have come to understand how helpful that is to do. For example, the word
"anarchy" means different things to different people. Even the definitions in
Webster are confusing.
If it means "harmony with the natural order of things" and the idea that in
the ideal world, there would be no need for authority, then you mean the same
thing as I do when I say that I'm an anarchist. Artists are looking to find
and even to reveal this natural orderliness just like it seems to me that
scientists are. If you mean "one who uses violent means to overthrow the
existing order" then I'm not an anarchist. We should try our best to overcome
the limitations of language and get on with trying to understand the world
around us and each other. Fred Good