The modern anarchist

 The anarchists are on the march, traffic has rolled to a halt and passengers attempting to catch a plane at Heathrow are up in arms.

The definition of an anarchist is one who creates chaos in the matters of the state.

 Another definition is that an anarchist is a person who has lost hope in political solutions to right a wrong and seeks solutions from the bottom up, taking control out of the hands of the establishment. The methods are usually seen as antagonistic to the status quo and therefore shunned by the ordinary man in the street as well as the established forces within the community. Given the top down structural nature of the society the pressure for answers or even an acknowledgement that their cry is being listened to, develops a schism which leads to desperation. 

The Heathrow protest is about racism and the belief that matters which effect black people are not as important to the country as they should be. Stopping the traffic, chaining yourself to what ever is solid and therefore holding up for as long as you can, frustrating the march of people going about their business people ignorant of the dilemma you see around you. 

The face of the anarchist is usually one of the unwashed, pin pierced, undernourished freaky people who we pass by each day, casting hardly a glance, afraid of what we see.
Society is made up of many faces and many fits. There are as many misfits of course and as we become conformists, relying on our smartphone to feed us up to date information, ignoring the fact that sadly the information is flowing from much the same source so that we all imbibe, much the same story.
Once upon a time we sourced our story from our own, 'hands-on' experience. It was unique to us and actually played out as our own 'back story'. We developed a tendency to evaluate the world through our own eyes and come to our own conclusions. We kept our distance as individuals not because of any distrust but because proximity bent our sense of judgement, (like large bodies distorting and bending the rays of light) and we instinctively thought  it was vitally important to come to our own conclusion.
The modern day anarchist unlike the famous dissenters in the 19th and 20th century have less of a single cause such as the State and all its organs but rather the world wide confederation of global capitalism, structures such as Wall Street the bureaucracy of the EU and the totalitarianism of Russia and China.
Their angry militant faces should remind us of our 'indifference' to virtually everything which we, hedonistically don't value.