I appreciate your perspective on this topic.
Anarchism is penned, but dominated in no uncertain measure by the sword.
In some aspects it seems like a double edged sword, because "If one's utopia requires armed thugs to persist, it sucks.™" A well armed, well trained, and well organized militia with a specific agenda and plan to carry out the agenda is an exception to the overall context, but then we're right back to the precursor statement.
Self governance being infringed upon invokes a defensive violence, a just violence, if one believes in such a thing, some do not. I am more of a proponent of believing in defensive violence if necessary. A self governing society is not likely to provoke or attack a non self governing society at a respectable distance, quite the other way around.
IF it doesn't fit on a protest sign the odds of mass adoption go down.
This phenomenon (unknown to me before reading this) seems to fit the more primitive herd mentality. (Influencing like advertisements, subliminal working.)
Less intellectualism, more slogan-ism. Effectiveness is what is important here, and identifying the positive effectiveness is all that matters in this regard if this is how the information is best digested by the majority.
Affecting change is not easy when people are so easily controlled by a plethora of lobotomizing influencers.
Thank you for the work you do, this is an important topic.
RE: The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon: THE SENTIMENTS AND MORALITY OF CROWDS.