Many misuse the term anarchist. Many think anarchy is somehow a bad thing, which is utter nonsense when you realize what anarchy actually is.

Anarchy means no rulers, not no rules. It’s an ideal, a noble and honorable idea…but also something that is never implemented properly when enough humans are involved. Humans are incapable of this ideal, at scale at least, as best I can tell.

Too often anarchy is used as a synonym for chaos. And chaos is used by authoritarians as a springboard to dictatorial power. This is the antithesis of anarchy.

You are a partial cryptoanarchist every time you use https to connect to a website. Why? Because you connect in a way where you insist nobody on earth can see what you’re doing. This is an example of a rule without a ruler.