2026-01-18 12:23 UTC
@brianbilston@mastodon.online Love your work, but using ‘anarchy’ to mean chaos perpetuates a misunderstanding of anarchism. It’s actually about non-hierarchical organization, not disorder
Edit: follow up https://floss.social/@daz/115918063676322989
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@flyhigh@universeodon.com 2026-01-18 14:32
@daz@floss.social @brianbilston@mastodon.online Exactly right. This misuse of the term "anarchy" so often seen is upsetting. It shows many people do not understand what "anarchy" means.
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@clintruin@mastodon.social 2026-01-18 14:53
@daz@floss.social @brianbilston@mastodon.online Call it "poetic license." 😉
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@huxley@mstdn.social 2026-01-18 16:03
@daz@floss.social @brianbilston@mastodon.online It is a reference to Yeats's Second Coming: Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
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@natural20@mastodon.ie 2026-01-18 18:55
@daz@floss.social @brianbilston@mastodon.online Blame WB Yeats?