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this is just a question for thecollective. Here you say:

"This breaking is perhaps what leads people to give up Anarchy, start a family, advance in their career, or escape to the woods; in other words a bowing to inevitable defeat."

So starting a family, advancing careers, or escaping to the woods is something that real anarchists never do? What is an anarchist? Aragorn plays the career game and considers himself an anarchist, TK went to the woods and didn't specifically identify as an anarchist, but i consider some of his ideas to be anarchistic. I feel like this way of thinking is part of an ideological rule set. Would it in any way be interesting to talk about the greater specifics of lifestyles?

Defeatism is something that has more shades than political defeatism, a lot of the individualists on here are what I would deem "political nihilists". I'm unfortunately both a personal defeatist and a political defeatist, as in i gave up on activism a long time ago and i often dislike myself.

Defeatism, despair, those are two concepts i link in a Freudian manner. Let's talk about how we can apply EE despair to politics! Let's talk about Atassa again!

Humility and Humiliation are also connected ideas for anti-authoritarians. To what extent is it bad and foolish to compromise with other people? There was a topic of the week a long time ago that posed the question about "what point it was embarrassing just to keep talking about something?" I think the internet in general is embarrassing to a degree...