Liberamente quanto acqua

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"Libremente quanto acqua" (translated from Italian to English meaning "as free as water") is the premise of all Acqua Pacifican social ideology. While unjustly imprisoned in America, Acqua Pacifica's founder Jonathan Leone was barred from his continuation of learning, so he observed water in cups and faucets. His conclusions led to the writings of his two books L'Acqua Politica and Libertà di Acqua.


Leone's Explaination

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Note the freedoms of the water coming out of the faucet. The only thing that forces it to do anything is gravity (which is a given). It has no specific shape, color, or taste. It is free to go where it may if it had the capacity. It is much similar to Leone's vision of a free and peaceful society: a land where people (like the water) are free, have nothing they are required to adhere to set upon them by the government, and can look, dress, and think how they want to, harnessing their own opinions as they may. When a certain structure, the glass (government) acts as an accessory to the water (people), it is given shape, thereby ruling out the improbability and unpredictability of Anarchism, yet the water cooperates nonetheless. Additionally, the glass protects the water from outside interference. The water is still free, however, and the only thing that inhibits Anarchism is the glass (which not only represents the government, but more the people's will of peaceful coexistance). Rarely is there confilct within a glass of water, unless for some reason it is stirred, and if it is kept fresh, it will not become stagnant.

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