Most journalists would consider it unprofessional to cast aspersions on all Catholics or Jews when a person who is Jewish or Catholic commits a crime, yet such restraint is often abandoned when an admitted anarchist commits a crime. Many would ague that blind allegiance to hierarchy in a society is a cultural construct that will not be altered by violent means - and that in fact violence often is used to justify more state authoritarian control. Anarchy is becoming more attractive to young people , perhaps because they are coming into a society that is increasingly criminalizing their behavior. They experience the criminal justice system first hand when they try smoking, try alcohol, try marijuana, resist dress codes and curfews, or even demand uncensored Internet access. It is only natural for young people to be attracted by a political philosophy that advocates minimal government intervention in personal affairs and asks that all authority be open to question.
Anarchy has a history.
When Emma Goldman was jailed for talking about birth control this was considered normal. Many of the personal freedoms we now enjoy were fought for by turn of the century anarchists. Historians have often preferred to view history through the prism of capitalist-communist dualism while ignoring the nuances of political thought in the early 1900's. More about Anarchist history and the Emma Goldman Test 6 Anarchist thought is part of an historical trend toward the decentralization of power. The Internet itself, it has been argued, represents a close to anarchist topology by virtue of its minimal central control.