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Agreed, I read Skully's post as containing the almost immovable (and erroneous) idea that anarchism = chaos or [society = order] + [state = society] therefore statelessness = disorder.
This line: "People desire order over 'chaos' so that statelessness can't really persist" - suggests he is equating statelessness with chaos, but the example given (Egypt / traffic lights) say the very opposite thing.
The problem that won't seem to go away is that whenever anarchism is discussed it seems to serve as a placeholder for 'chaos'.
If we go to the Wikipedia page on anarchism (it's long and boring with hundreds of footnotes / references) - and do a search for the word 'chaos' amongst the eleven thousand three hundred and forty three words on that page (thanks to online word count) - nowhere does the word 'chaos' appear, or 'disorder' or anything like that, for the same reason the word 'pedophilia' doesn't appear on the Wikipedia entry for socialism or 'levitation' appears nowhere in the lengthy entry for conservatism (7525 words).
When I imagine anarchism, I see London with the buses running as usual, people texting and Inception on at the Odeon Haymarket, I imagine going for a drink afterwards and then getting home, by taxi, not too late as I have to be up early to drop some cash off at my Landlord's house and then get to my job as a designer/banker/engineer/dress maker/receptionist/nursery worker - but if you discuss anarchism with most people it's hard to break free from the gravitational pull of Mad Max, burning tyres and leather trousers (with studs in).