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Lately and especially tonight on Facebook and other social media sites, I’ve been seeing a lot of talk about the government shutdown. Everyone is making a giant deal about it without having much knowledge on the situation at all and it’s beginning to get on my nerves. I happen to be friends with some anarchists and to them apparently the term “government shutdown “ means no more government whatsoever and they’ve been making a huge hubbub about it. First of all, this doesn’t mean that there is no government; it just means that congress did not pass a bill that would allow the government more money, basically stopping funding for many government programs. Things such as National Parks, federal employee payrolls, and food stamp systems for mothers and the lower class will not have money going into them until the government acquires more money. I’ve been seeing way too many “let’s ring in the anarchy!” posts and honestly it’s so hard not to comment on them without being rude or demeaning, so I’ve avoided it all together. Not only is anarchy a flawed system, but many of its believers are uneducated on what it really means. Anarchy would only work if human beings were 100% perfect and honest, or if they were fine living in a state of chaos without a police force when it was needed. Everyone needs to stop getting there hopes up and realize that the shutdown is not going to ring in any kind of freedom or anarchy, but instead will be a huge inconvenience, not the start of a revolution.