Every time I get into a discussion with an anarchist about how the needs met by police, courts, lawmaking bodies, and military could be met in an anarchist community, the conversation seems to hit a wall. I never get clear answers. The only answers I ever get are extremely vague. I finally got a little bit more of a specific answer from somebody earlier tonight on YouTube. He said that town meetings could solve everything. I responded by writing a story and following it with a question. If anybody reading this is an anarchist, please answer the question.


In an anarchist community, a man plays his music way too loud 20 hours a day. He is using concert speakers that he has on his roof to blast early Metallica and Slayer at all hours except when he sleeps. He is a professional writer, so he never has to show up anywhere. He just stays home, writes, and blasts thrash metal from concert speakers on his roof. His neighbors complain, and he doesn't care.

The neighbors set up a town meeting, and the noisy person doesn't want to go. At the town meeting, many of the people decide that the man should turn his music down. A lot of others say that he is on his own property and can play his music as loud as he wants to. Although the majority says he has to turn it down, the minority is complaining about who couldn't make the meeting because of good reasons and say that the decision does not count. The majority tells them to shut up and decides to go make the man turn his music down. The only way to do that is to go into his house and make him do it. The minority says they can't trespass like that, but the majority ignores them because it's about "justice." The only way to stop them is to fight them, so they have a battle in the guy's yard. 12 people get shot to death. When the justice crew (or trespassers?) walks into his house, he freaks out about having his house broken into and shoots the people.

Now there has to be a town meeting about the shooting. The residents disagree on what kind of town meeting to have and who has the right to force the man into jail if he is found guilty. Seven different town meetings are held to decide the fate of the man, and they argue over which one the man has to attend. They have to have a town meeting over which town meeting the man has to attend, but 15 town meetings form over that because they all have different ideas on the rules of town meeting trial.

A mob of people decide that they will end the clusterfuck by kidnapping the man and hanging him, and they hang him. They get caught, and now they are all facing town meetings for murder, but they and their supporters say they should not have to even go to a town meeting over such necessary justice. They are kidnapped and taken to a town meeting, but another town meeting says the lynchers are supposed to be at their town meeting, so they kidnap the lynch mob, and then the kidnappers are facing town meetings for violating a town meeting. The rages over so much perceived injustice result in a town civil war, and half the town is killed.

Meanwhile, Russia invades the United States because it no longer has a government. Russia has fighter jet teams, tank battalions, a naval fleet with aircraft carriers, drones, and millions of trained and organized soldiers. They also have enough nuclear weapons to blow up the world. They use organized, high quality military strategy in working to take over the land. Since Canada and Mexico always depended on the United States for protection, Russia invades them too.

What can be done about this nightmare without the formation of a government?