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I'm not sure you understand "anti-civ". Perhaps you're confusing it with academic goofs like DGR and the Dark Mountain Project? Neither of these people are anarchist, jsyk. So I'd like to hear about what are your referents when you talk of "anarchists" and "anti-civ", as you seem to throw a bunch of cheap generalizations around.

Anarchy can only be anti-civ, IMO... in how civilization in itself is an authoritarian construct (and often also totalitarian), and process of domestication and formatting of anything not conforming to whatever its premises are. I can't really think of civlizations that weren't authoritarian in some way.

Regardless of what exactly are your futurist pipedreams, in order to become concrete you'll have to make a lot of people comply with them. I'm too in favor of cool-ass eco-friendly vertical cities, but I recognize what kind of mass politics (and billlions) I'd take to make these become real. So I don't take them very seriously, as this ain't stuff I'll see happening before I die.

Egoistic? Yeah, just like the rest of the mortals. If you want me to think centuries ahead and be more altruistic, gimme gimme immortality.

But no, maybe I ain't too interested after all.