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| Mar 16, 2010 2:54 am |
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re: re: re: Transition to benevolent anarchy |
Ken Hilving
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We'll miss whatever constructive thoughts you might have shared, Thomas. We will press on without you regardless.
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This is more than a discussion. I am part of the community I am calling "Anarchy" and we are in transition. We succeeded in the de-annexation, and have no incorporated community standing in the eyes of Texas.
The next move is ours, and I am proposing this benevolent anarchy concept to the community. We were placed in jeopardy under a mayor and town council form of government. It may have been their poor judgement, or it may have been a case of "every man for himself", but we have left that issue behind us.
Now we managed for years without any government, living in relative harmony without government. We had no police force, only a county sheriff and his deputies who dealt more with loose livestock than crime. Our roads were county roads, a happy circumstance we lost when we chose to join the neighboring town. The county will take over road maintenance if we first bring them up to the county defined level of repair. We are on septic systems, and get our power and water from cooperatives rather than government offices. The school district lines have not changed for us in 40 years, as these are independent of city borders.
While we are independent, and we are safe from being swallowed by either the city to the south or the town to the north, we may still be at risk from growing cities to the east and west. If we are to hold onto our community as is, we will have to incorporate.
We all chose to live where we do except for a few families who have roots going back to the 1800's. It was their parents and grandparents who opened up the land we live on to create our community some 40 years ago.
We have, in fact, been living primarily under a benevolent anarchy all along. So this effort is to formalize the system as we incorporate, and to modernize the process to better leverage cooperative opportunities.Private Reply to Ken Hilving (new win) |
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