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• Sunsofold@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s a bit of a semantic grey space, like many words. For common use, anarchy and chaos are synonyms, hence why your initial comment could be read both ways. For a certain class of ‘rebellious’ individual, it’s used more like a naive, ‘lower case l’ libertarianism. For some, it means the absence of any social structure at all, a ‘state of nature.’ For some others it’s the de facto reality of all systems using a definition of ‘who has the most capacity for violence makes the rules.’ For those studying sociology and anthropology, it’s used specifically for a class of societal organizational systems that may be highly organized but share a lack of hierarchy. The shared element between the various uses is the lack of structure so I lean toward keeping it to that basic concept and hesitate to claim any of them are the ‘correct’ definition.

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  • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    the equivocation between chaos and anarchy is a deliberate tactic to malign the philosophy.
    if every time there was riots people yelled “there’s communism in the streets!” it wouldn’t change the meaning of the word.
    throwing libertarian in there is just nuts so i see this going nowhere.

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    • Sunsofold@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If enough people use a word to mean something different from what it used to mean, it literally does change the meaning, (e.g. radical meaning ‘connected to a plant’s roots,’ the reason people say ‘transwomen are real women.’ etc.) but fair enough. Have a nice day.

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      • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        the reason people say ‘transwomen are real women.’

        Anthropologists changed the meaning of gender to refer only to the societal role and not biological sex. Not just from people using it that way, but from scientists who study humans. They needed that word because many societies have gender roles that aren’t strictly tied to sex.

        i will have a terrible day, you can’t tell me what to do.

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