Put adults in charge of themselves

Why do I feel like my life is being dictated by powers beyond my control?  What power structure is this that has me feeling helpless, like one of the children in a 2nd grade class I am teaching?  Is there no way for a man to control his environment?  Why must I go against the grain to live a righteous life?  How can I compete with the self destructive capitalist society as it works so hard to extract money from me?

The conversation of freedom vs organization was very well discussed in Bertrand Russell's book by that name.  He looks back on the revolutionary times of Europe's conflicting factions and feudal development.  What emerges is a clear picture that organization beats down freedom until it eats itself.  At some point, the organizing control mechanism overreaches and the people can take it no longer.  They rise up en mass to destroy the organizing component, but is organization really gone?  Of course not.  The farmers still organize with the consumers to provide food.  Communities still organize to educate children.  Doctors and nurses still organize to help sick people.

What fears prevent people from standing up to the organizing system earlier?  One reason is that the system has slowly found it's weaknesses and put up blockades (literally) in order to restrict citizen's options for dissent.  Fear of anarchy dampens the spirit of many dissenters.  Anarchy is a confusing term for many people, but it makes sense from a libertarian perspective.  How will our food be delivered ?  How will our homes be heated?  The definition of anarchy as portrayed by the controlling system is one in which everything just goes to hell.

By it's original definition, anarchy is not uncontrolled chaos, but an egalitarian principle that individual adults should be able to handle their own business.  What is the value of a homogenizing federal government the purpose of which is to control the population for the benefit of itself and a small group of super rich families?  It certainly can be a powerful collective.  Unfortunately, it is one that can be overtaken by a small group of rich families for their own purpose.  In an anarchist society, each individual is responsible for their own welfare to a large degree.  There is no huge power system open for abuse by anyone smart enough, wealthy enough, and determined enough to take the wheel.

By nature, anarchy evolves from the individual model into a more controlled structure. Eventually, as it develops more and more controls, it becomes authoritarian.  We have gone from anarchy to authoritarian in America.  Now we must wait for it to eat itself so we can clean up the mess and start the cycle again.