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Appreciate the responses: personally, I don't think you need to look to the anarchist identity for many answers, all the longstanding ways that the milieu can be annoying are duly noted but I'd talk out of my ass in a different direction.

Spent half my adult life working in and around music festivals, event spaces and bars and the fact is that much larger economic and social forces are gobbling up people's spare time and resources at the same time that technology is provided more and more cheap or free distraction in our little isolation pods … all of which is to say, anarchist "scenes" and spaces are only suffering as much as all the other pre-internet modes of mass behaviour.

Trying to get a crowd out to do anything these days is like pulling teeth. Even to show up for something just meant to be recreational, trying to sell booze and a show. I recognize that large public events still happen but they're more contrived and curated through tech and the crowd is sluggish, anxious and alienated, loses interest faster and acts like the daylight hurts their eyes and within a few hours they just want to return to the cold comfort and mental torpor of the pod.