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Are always more preferable than not so 09:47. The ancient world was a different context then ours though need I remind you about the death of Socrates. The simple fact is that in context like, say, North Korea there are extra challenges to the expression of vibrant anarchist and anarch ideas. Also no system or society will ever feel free and anarchic, that's why anarchy will always have an appeal. What keeps people either loyal or non confrontational is usually psychosomatic comfort and habituation to everyday life in a given society.

My assertion on belief is simply based on observation and correspondence. The reason you have the emergence of cults for example is because there are people looking for some kind of anchored meaning to structure their lives. Propaganda and advertising is simply branching on what has already taken psychological root. The demand for advertising and marketing clearly does precede the latter. It was proles who basically created modern transactionist society not created by it. The psychology and excess was there for it. To entertain otherwise is to entertain Bernnays and his behaviorist assumptions of human beings.

Who cares if societies get infiltrated and destroyed? That's not an anarchist or anarchs problem. The current liberal one that we exist in seems to be doing just fine in absorbing its contradictions. The rise of the far right is due to multiple factors that include failing institutions and everyday life discomfort over more then an generation. There is nothing about the open internet that is inherently right wing attracting. This was not the case at the tail end of gen x where you saw the rise of indymedia for instance. Right wing rise is clearly tied to other factors beyond just the internet. Anews was actually much better in the late 00s-14 when it was doing very little moderation.

Anything goes is basically what anarchy is my friend. It's not supposed to be a societal soluble.