Hello everyone. I'm Stephen West. This is philosophize this. I always try to be really sparing with how much of your time I take up with these intros. I just want to say, because I haven't said it in a while.

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anarchism. I hope you love the show today. So I'm gonna assume there's at

least a certain percentage of people coming to this episode with an

understanding of anarchism that what an anarchist fundamentally

believes is that we should overthrow the government tomorrow.

Oppositional defiance, in other words, the firm belief that I'm not going to participate in this

unjust institution called the government

anymore. I'm not washing the dishes tonight. Nope, as an anarchist, my evening's going to be going

down to the mall. I'm going to buy a spiky bracelet from Hot Topic, maybe steal a toaster.

Then I'm going to sit back and watch, as society as we know, it burns on down into ashes.

That's what a real anarchist does.

But I think every serious anarchist out there would say that that view is at best a delusional

oversimplification of anarchism, and at worst it is propaganda. Propaganda that's maintained by certain

people because the reality of the matter to an anarchist.

Is that if every person out there knew the full story when it comes to anarchism as a political philosophy,

they might find themselves with views on the nature of power, the way things are set up,

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