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Credit cards. Smartphones. Social media. All of these technologies are widely used. All of them are sold to us as being fun, conveinent, and practical. All of them are being used to build a cage around us.
Friedrich Nietzsche famously declared God to be dead. Max Stirner, less famously, declared the same. The faithful disagree, but their statements within context, that the Enlightenment diminished belief in Christianity, are undeniable. Today we live with the consequences of the Enlightenment and they're not all good.
Of all the branches of anarchist theory, illegalism stands as the most honest. It does away with all of the pretension that plague so many other schools of anarchist thought. Unfortunately it doesn't get its deserved time in the spotlight. Don't worry, despite the title, this won't be written in poetic form.