Not my experience at all, esp. in terms of the people/communities I've met or the books I've read. > Unlike some other ideologies they will happily answer any

Not my experience at all, esp. in terms of the people/communities I've met or the books I've read. > Unlike some other ideologies they will happily answer any questions about it, it's just that the answers are extremely bad, whether it's "how would you make insulin" (you won't) or "how does criminal justice work" (sometimes meetings, sometimes lynch mobs). That's precisely what I meant by pop culture/mass media. At this stage, this is more of a meme regarding anarchy than reality and this couldn't be farther from truth. (and it's quite an old one, think: French enlightenment era philosophers using pre-partition Poland as an example of anarchy).