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Been staring at this ToTW for a while now, as it comes up frequently in certain circles.
As I age, conflict is becoming less and less appealing to me, which is to say, conflict with and within my group of friends / acquaintances / those-on-the-side-I'm-on. To the extent that I am an anarchist, I am in conflict with the thing (people) for which, if it (they) knew I was in conflict with it (them), and that my opposition could be effectual, it (they) would just crush me like a bug. Strategic thinking requires me to remain opaque / hidden / obscure, not in overt conflict with, yet, until I can either be effectual or I just do not care any more about dying.
Conflict within my in group, unless it is in service toward freedom, is usually more of an annoyance than anything productive. If we are in disagreement about how to get free, then discussion, argument, disagreement or conflict can be useful, beneficial, productive, but maybe only if, at some point, we stop fighting each other and turn our attention to the actual thing (people) we are antagonistic toward.