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A reflection on the course of c!techno’s anarchy

Buckle in folks this is a long one.

Now I love technoblade as much as the next lesbian howevor my desire to throw down with c!techno increases with every moment. In my last post I mostly discussed my thoughts of the Tommy-Techno betrayal citation and why I thought it was inevitable and necessary as well as why I believed that destroying L’Manburg would be an ineffectual method of achieving Techno’s goals in the long term. This post can definitely be read without it but I will be building off of it a bit. I will be elaborating on the latter as well as my thoughts on the L’Manburg government and corruption.

Let’s begi with L’Manburg. As I said in my previous post for much of its time as a country especially during the end L’Manburg was a sham of a government with only an illnusion of power allowed by Dream. However like c!Techno has pointed out there have absolutely been many abuses of power by the government throughout its history. Things like how c!Wilbur appointed himself as president in the beginning, Schlatt immediately exiling his primary political appointments the moment he gained power, and the unlawful execution attempts of the Butcher Army. In an ideal world L’Manburg could have been a community of people standing against tyranny on completely equal footing. But it wasn’t and has always had stratified power systems that were completely unnecessary seeing that there were like what? Maybe 10 citizens of L’Manburg at its highest population? You don’t need a president over 10 people. 

However L’Manburg was never just a seat of government. It was a symbol of resistance against c!Dream (even if I don’t think it really ever succeeded in that) and it was home for a lot of the members of the server at times even if not at the end of the country’s days. As Ghostbur said to c!Phil yesterday in destroying L’Manburg they weren’t just destroying a government but they were also destroying the things and places people cherished and that held beloved memories. 

Now you might argue that destroying the L’Manburg government was worth this sacrifice (although c!Techno and c!Phil clearly didn’t view it as a sacrifice of anything of value showing a lack of understanding for the L’Manburg people) I really don’t think this has brought them any closer to succeeding in c!Techno’s goal of total anarchy. 

c!Techno and c!Phil both stated that they wanted to teach the lesson that governments for bad and that governments had caused this destruction. But that’s not the lesson that was taught and that’s not the lesson that was learned. A corrupt government is not what caused team chaos destroying L’Manburg. Team chaos is what caused team chaos to destroy L’Manburg. Few would take someone blowing up their country and home to be a persuasive argument as to why the country was corrupt. This was not liberation and this does not help heal the wounds of oppressive government. 

Now there were those who chose to stand on the sidelines and let L’Manburg fall and revelled in its destruction ie Nikki, Fundy, and HBomb. I’m gonna focus on Nikki and Fundy because I honestly haven’t been following HBomb’s character so I can’t speak on his reasoning and motivations. In the case of Nikki she has understandably come to the conclusion with clear judgement that the L’Manburg government was corrupt and that she has repeatedly been overlooked and ignored and that is not willing to fight for L’Manburg ever again. While I doubt she will ever be down for being part of a government again I also don’t think she’s been persuaded to anarchism. And then with Fundy his decision was not nearly based in the same rational thinking as Nikki’s was. His decision came purely out of trauma and anger. I believe he even said at one point something along the lines that he wanted them to feel the same lows of pain and powerlessness that he had. If you know the point I’m talking about feel free to leave the timestamp in the replies or tags. This 

With L’Manburg a crater people are moving elsewhere and with them will bring the same problems that caused the corruption of L’Manburg in the first place. There will just be new countries and governments formed or they will join one of the many remaining countries/governments/groups remaining on the Dream SMP. For example the lesson Eret learned from this is that he wants to be the kind of King that creates a peaceful and just community for his citizens, not that government is bad. 

However the biggest reason I don’t believe that this brings the server closer to the anarchy c!Techno wants isn’t because of the citizens of L’Manburg. But rather because of the person he teamed up with to destroy L’Manburg: c!Dream. As I have stated previously c!Dream is the actual tyrant of the SMP he just isn’t in name. He allows L’Manburg’s independence the first time when he got the disks because he traded the power they gave him for their independence. They never really won against c!Dream in the first war. I would argue that he helps L’Manburg get blown up because it puts him in a better position of power over the new cabinet and presidency of Tubbo. Which he maintains and asserts power over through threats and political pressure to exile Tommy. I will restate to my dying breath that Tubbo was as much of a puppet ruler as Eret is. 

Through these and through his many other actions we can see that c!Dream is the biggest example of the stratified power that c!Techno opposes, on the whole server. He just chooses not to make that power named and obvious. c!Dream doesn’t and isn’t working towards anarchy, he’s working towards the exact opposite. A monolithic “family” that can live “peacefully” as long as they abide by his rule. c!Techno has been blindsided through his desire for vengeance on L’Manburg for betraying him that he’s completely ignoring the fact that c!Dream is working completely ideologically against him. 

People have stated repeatedly that there is a cycle of corruption and bloodshed and there is. You cannot break a cycle of violence through violence. You cannot teach a lesson of peace through warfare. Lessons of violence just create distrust, anger, and trauma. None of which predispose people towards making decisions for their best interests. Without healing it just leads to more violence and chaos. Things which c!Dream manipulates for his best interests. 

c!Dream is going to betray c!Techno, because his anarchy, while helpful sometimes, is in the way of his unified Dream SMP. And while destroying L’Manburg has likely brought him closer to his goals, it really hasn’t brought c!Techno closer to his.

If you disagree with me or want any elaborations feel free to comment!