A serious misunderstanding on the part of anarchist individualists, generally speaking, is constituted by the idea that one is ‘being oneself, free from bonds’, when one is in fact enslaved to oneself. Herbert Gold’s observation in regard to those cases in which this self-examination is missing is certainly correct: ‘The hipster is victim of the most hopeless condition of slavery — the slave who does not know that he is a slave and is proud of his slavery, calling it “freedom”.’
