A Biological Argument for Anarchy

Cells are amazing. A cell is in some ways like a little factory. All sorts of machinery is deployed to make stuff. The machines are tiny chemical components with very specific tasks. The complexity regularly baffles researchers. Stuff passes through a series of stages before completion. However, there is no MRP or JIT process control and there is no cell manager or supervisor or some other director in charge of co-ordinating the process. If you think that DNA guides the process or steers the cell's production line, then you are wrong. DNA is only the cell's library, the blueprints used to make stuff. DNA itself does not do anything. There simply is no leadership in a cell, no one to grant leave days or to approve budgets or to be “responsible”, yet some of the most complex coordination is going on.

Social insects are amazing. The hive, or hill, is like a factory. The insects all have a place in the structure. They are the best workers one can wish for. They do their tasks, no questions asked. They don't revolt or take two weeks off. The whole thing is self-organized. Everybody has a job to do and works often indirectly for the interest of the bigger picture. There is no central authority in charge of what is happening in the community. No leader issues memos or emails or decrees or legislation. There is no dictator, parliament, senate or judicial system. If you think that the queen of a colony is in charge, then you are wrong. She does not direct the workers or issue commands. To the other insects in the colony, the queen is like a giant egg laying machine. Nobody co-ordinates, yet an amazing amount of complex organizational behavior spontaneously emerges.

Human society is amazing. I suggest we don't need any leaders. Just let nature manage us manage ourselves. Just do what you feel like doing and somehow we'll all end up in a very well organized society.

Now, how can I get everyone to do that?