Shyheels

I've not had the pleasure of reading one of Godwin's novels. I shall take your word for it if ever his name pops up on my fiction reading list! :-) And I didn't take anything you said to intimate any sneering on my oart. It was more a self declaration. I was afraid that in my negativity I might be sounding as though I were affecting some kind if cynical world-weary ennui. And ILK - you are aware that while Eisenhower was the Supreme Allied Commander, Operation Overlord was largely the brainchild of the British General Montgomery. And that 75% or more of the planes, ships, landing craft used on the big day were British? And that the Royal Navy had responsibility for Operation Neptune, the naval part of the invasion?

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Yes, I did misunderstand you possibly because Proudhon and Godwin were, to my mind more economists than anything else, although of course they were political theorists and philosophers as well. Their ideas were of a time and place, and while they were attractive and in theory workable, they would have relied upon a more broadly enlightened human nature than is likely to be found in society, no matter what level you're looking at. Don't get me wrong either. I'm not cynically sneering at such ideas. My negativity is more wistful than not.

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Humans are social animals and in every grouping of social animals, be it ants or a wolf pack, a leader will inevitably arise. I don't think it matters that we live in an industrial world.

It would have been nice for humans to have evolved out of this Darwinian stew, and to be able to live in a society of equals, without rulers, and in an atmosphere of mutual respect and tolerance but as you say the notion of anarchy, anarchism and anarchists has been usurped by people advocating destruction and disorder. Ironically enough, if they were to be successful and impose their views, they would in effect become the new rulers - shaping the lives of reluctant others and filling a power vacuum that simply seems destined to be filled one way or another.

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Thanks ilk! And Thighmax - I can well imagine that wearing heeled boots at a bank could be awkward, even for a woman. I am fortunate in that I work from home and can therefore set my own dress code (black suede over the knees de rigueur!) When I am travelling that is another matter although frankly the sorts of places I go you would not wear black suede boots anyway, let alone high heels, whether you were male or female.

Thank you for the welcomes. Seventy pairs of boots is a lot, Thighmax! So is forty-five. I have but one. I will probably stay with that for the foreseeable future. I wanted to get nice, non-fetish style ones and in my size that is not easy. I got a pair from Jean Gaborit which are very nice, but very expensive and so one is very much my limit. But that is also perfectly satisfactory for my needs. I am fortunate that I work from a home office (except for when I am on the road) and thus can wear what I please and so I have declared over-the-knee black suede boots with 4" heels to be part of my office attire.

I have no particular desire to wear them out and about. Were I totally a free agent, that might be different, for in having given myself permission to buy and wear these boots I also dispensed with a lot of the old self-consciousness about wanting them in the first place. But I do not live in a vacuum and my wearing them around the town would create awkwardness for others whom I care about. And since I am quite content for my nice suede boots to be office wear, it's handy all around.

By way of further introduction, I work in a creative field (not music), travel quite a bit, and have found that wearing my boots, and the convention-defying, emotional liberation they bring, to be very conducive to creativity.  

Carbon

As Saint Augustine said, Love God and do what you will. Under those circumstances, if people were following that precept, anarchy would be benign since everybody would be guided by their better nature. So anarchy, absolute liberty, is not intrinsically a bad thing. It is the bad apples that make it so.

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