the most valuable thing I learned is that my previous way of being had me cut off from different sources of wisdom, particularly as AnCap has that axiomic foundation and 'natural law' approach to its philosophy. 'Self-evident' means 'unquestionable' which results in obedience, at least in my mind.

THIS

My Gawd, this is so much the problem with those ideologies and the way they decide on something "self-evident" and refuse to budge, to hell with the evidence to the contrary. It's the most frustrating as you always end up in the same debate which they will then take on faith.

Other than that, thanks for sharing your experience.

These events that took place, and the little details involved, shook me and changed the way I identified. There were things I discovered about myself that I sought to change and I had to go away and really try to understand myself better. I found that I was lying by BEING Anarchist. I shouldn't be anything. I should just be. Live.

Since then I've come to find that my politics and the rest of my ethical philosophy has just flowed from this and has, in fact, come through stronger than before. Although the process isn't over for me — and I don't think it ever will be — the most valuable thing I learned is that my previous way of being had me cut off from different sources of wisdom, particularly as AnCap has that axiomic foundation and 'natural law' approach to its philosophy. 'Self-evident' means 'unquestionable' which results in obedience, at least in my mind.

And I apologise if it just seems like I've written a whole heap of wank, but this is generally why I currently find it hard to say that I am this or that and is, really, what has lead me to reject much of AnCap bar a few observations/arguments.