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Gol-dern anarchists and your meta-questioning every time someone throws a pie at a book fair!

Who would have thought that a Brand Name Anarchist under capitalism would exhibit anti-social, condescending, narcissistic behavior? What ever is the anarchist economy coming to?

The question of anarchists being cops here is the same as “If you like tolerance so much why are you being intolerant of my intolerance?” It’s a classic zero-sum trope and is more a language game than anything. Any attempt to solve a problem is a problem for the person who caused the problem, it doesn’t make the person trying to solve it a problem for anyone but the problem causer.

So who gets to judge what’s acceptable behavior? Well, the people immediately around you, I’d say. Welcome to the wonderful world of anti-civ theory! Where kindness, harmony, equality, and humanity are enforced by direct interaction. That’s the whole freakin point!

Also welcome to humanity, where we’re a bunch of sneaky little coyotes. Aggressive behavior is far more likely to be surreptitious than confrontational in our species. Like the classic abusive tactic of doing totally aggravating things and then acting like any response to them is the rEAaaEaLlL aggression.

I’ll look forward to your blog post.