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I've always been comfortable with being at least this much of an asshole: if your "activity" consists only of the passive spectacle of ideas and debates online or in books, no, you're not an anarchist, or interesting to me at all.

I recognize that this is gatekeeping and I don't care. You can insist it's just my opinion but I don't think it is, it's just a reality. The more you shut yourself away in isolation, the less you are anything (which is what those who deal in social control want, obviously).

This clears up quite a bit of confusion around definitions, automatically disqualifies most of the internet noise and makes everything much simpler. You "engage" by finding other likeminds who are actually doing something besides alienated, techno circlejerking and complaining. You'll also notice that this is a pretty exclusive club by default! I'm good with that too. Only so much energy I have for relationships anyway.