Before anyone gets the wrong idea, no, I’m not talking about the movie/show The Watchmen. I’m referring to the ancient philosophical question “quis custodiet ipsos custodes” or “who watches the watchmen”. Go read up on that elsewhere.
For those of you who don’t know and need a summary here, it’s a question often posed in reference to the fact that the person or people in charge of making sure the rules are honored have nothing preventing them from disobeying the rules. There’s never anything preventing the person guarding your treasure from stealing some of the treasure, for example.
What’s the best remedy to this that you can think of?
Found some definition:
the organization of society on the basis of voluntary cooperation, without political institutions or hierarchical government
So, what makes me or anyone else voluntarily cooperate? What happens if I don’t?
Then you don’t get to participate? If you don’t want to play along with the commune then don’t. Have fun growing all your own food, mending all your own clothes, repairing your own structures, teaching your own kids…
Yeah, such a system is only possible in theory and can never really work.
Such a system has worked fine in plenty of places, you’re just conditioned to ignore them.
We’re not making shit up, there have been anarchic societies for as long as humans have existed.