Some unorganized thoughts.
My experience with anarchism is similar to my experience with psychedelic drugs, in that it unplugs you from your 'reality tunnel' and forces you to question the most fundamental beliefs and concepts. Those who speak of 'justified hierarchy' are probably trying to find a way to incorporate newly gained perspectives with some old beliefs, it takes a while to re-adjust your positions. Without the proper framework and vocabulary, the new perspectives can be difficult to express.
Exploring anarchism, it constantly adds to that list of things that people cling to for some reason, a whole buncha ideas that keep the destructive human-made world very stable: Authority, government, state, civilization, church, capitalism, elections, money, work, careers, property, police, prisons, legal order, rights, beauty standards, gender roles, progress, etc., etc., etc.
And then you live in a world mesmerized by ideas that we inherited, and none of them make much sense anymore. That can feel very disorienting and alienating. Like, why can't we snap out of that dream and do things differently? Why do we take that shit seriously? What am I missing here, what the hell is going on? You can't ask me to go back to believing in these things the way I used to. In a way, that's like asking a teenager to believe in Santa Claus again. What do you mean "what's my alternative to Santa Claus"?
Anarchism seems to primarily be about creating the language and the frameworks that allow us to talk about what we mean by 'anarchy', which is actually a rather simple idea most anarchists understand intuitively. It's just kinda 'out there' and it doesn't fit in.
subrosa OP wrote
Let me know if I should go back to /f/lobby for these type of posts.