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"Is anarchy a problemless utopian ideal? Is it even something we’ll ever see on a societal level?"

Anarchy was never an ideal (anarchism has been... for a bunch of impressionable people or newbies). It's a relation that IS, exists all over the place. It doesn't need an utopia. It IS life. Within human interactions, I'd call it a form of communication. Not merely a "vocabulary", but more like a language, a way to engage. Children have it the easiest, as their contact with humans is fresh and naive; but like Lao Tse said it... people grow callous (like the tree example) as they get older, and communications becomes authoritarian, complex, walled, schizophrenic. People either get sucked in group bubbles where they are continuously distracted and swept away by the "thousand things", or remain in their sad lonely bubbles. Perhaps the lonely are closer to the Qi even in their misery as they are less distracted on a daily basis, but I cannot pretend.

But there's many problematic utopian ideals out there, and all of them are authoritarian as fuck.