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user-inactivated  ·  3929 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Primitive Accumulation of Cool

I think the reason it hasn't become a "movement with undeniable cultural force" is that the tactic of excluding oneself from everything is necessarily disempowering. It has a lot of romantic appeal, and feels personally liberating, so a lot of people choose to live that way, but in the end social isolation makes it difficult to effect social change.

Among anarchists there's criticism of what's known as "lifestyle anarchism" from social anarchists that essentially typifies this.