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"Another problem the interviews return to again and again is how to reconcile anarchist beliefs with actual life in the globalized capitalist system. Some of the writers here live by anarchist beliefs to a certain extent, publishing or distributing their writing outside the conventional publishing world, or living in alternative arrangements of one kind or another. Others live more outwardly conventional lives, while writing about anarchism and supporting it in their political action, of which writing is one part. No one can escape a certain amount of contradiction here; the world economy is almost entirely capitalist in structure, and state rule is an overarching reality in human affairs. So the interest in anarchism expressed by these writers, and the effect this complex of ideas has on their lives, has necessarily to involve various compromises and what might be called symbolic actions—as long as one remembers that symbolic actions are also real actions, not at all to be dismissed. Voting is a symbolic action, going to church is a symbolic action, speaking and writing and talking are symbolic actions; all are also real actions, and have real effects in the real world—partly by themselves, and partly by what they suggest symbolically we should do in all the rest of our actions."

This is why anarchy is in such a mess and is constantly eating itself by coming up with more and more nuances: identity adjectives Anarcho-whatever because anarchists do very little of anything meaningful regarding furthering anarchy in actual life so they write and write and write and bicker and bicker and bicker and this passes for anarchism-in-waiting!!! Well, you're gonna be waiting a long long time. Why are the fuck are you waiting anyway?

Introduced into anarchism through reading and music and then reading more deeply and then... nothing much as there is nothing much out there for would-be anarchists. So, it's either write and write and write and bicker, bicker bicker...oh, I forgot, podcast, podcast, podcast. I could end up like John Zerzan (kill me now) where I got stoked over a new anti-civ coming out (for fucksake!). Or by reading aloud, over the airwaves, yet another piece of self-written material drenched in quote after quote which appeals to hardly anyone: which is as dry and as dull as being at school listening to some ol' git teacher waffling on at the front of class. Very sad. Zerzan may never had to resort to such little crumbs of 'anarchism' (if I can even call it that?) if something had actually materialised in actual life or if JZ had actually put away his pen and book fetish and got his shit together. Aragorn! do you want up like JZ? Well, it;s something you need to think about.

Aragorn! at least you do raise the state of anarchy today through, for example, The Brilliant. However, I feel you are flogging a dead horse. Yes, there is LBC which is niche publishing, at best. LBC is no hotbed of radical energy, neither is AK press for that matter. Because there is no one out there to take the content of such books and make it happen, so all you have is book readers and fantasists.

Face it, people are OK with surveillance. People are OK with shitty poorly paid jobs. People are OK with renting and increased rents etc etc. And the few who are not happy, read the content of LBC and AK press, listen to JZ, listen to podcasts and deal with it that way... that's "anarchy" today!!!

As for me.. that would be telling!