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Some thoughts from someone who was there:
- Aragorn! had conversations with people at the bookfair who were interested in having conversations. The oogle nihilist clique (a majority of the bookfair) didn't engage with anyone outside of their crew.
- The so-called "direct action" against Aragorn! was no surprise given that the majority of people at the bookfair root their politics in ridiculous violent posturing (zines that are just sub-Novatore wordsalad rants, ubiquitous brassknuckle/gun/dynamite aesthetics) and anti-intellectualism (i.e. adopting anarchist identities - nihilist, insurrectionist, individualist, anti-civ, whatever - without really engaging with the ideas). Of course none of the keyboard critics tried to challenge Aragorn! to his face, given the flimsy basis of their ideas. It's easier to be a super-hard nihilist-pepperspray-facetat warrior in a group of others who dress/think exactly as you do than to actually defend your beliefs.
- I hope the organizers understand that if they do this event again, it will probably only be their oogle friends who show up. Who wants to come to an event where some kid is going to steal your shit or pepperspray your stuff because of vague personal grievances?

To conclude: the emotional/intellectual immaturity of many in the anarchist space is making public events just not worth attending. If anarchists (especially those who drone on and on about being "against morality" and how "nihilist" they are) can't handle someone being a little uncouth or tabling a fucking book they don't like, then maybe it's best to just let them have their subculture of fragile imbeciles.