From Max Igan :
Update on my previous post discussing my thoughts on the HBO series "The Anarchists" for those who may be interested, with 2 episodes left to air, and as an outside observer and 6 times speaker and attendee at the conference.
For all the bad press this series seems to be attempting to bring to the Anarchist movement by the focus it brings onto particular individuals that support the narrative it wishes to construct, there is an awful lot that has not been covered. But still in many ways the entire Anarchist series has so far been very revealing, although not particularly honest in its approach... The Freemans very much seem to be being portrayed as the hard suffering hero's in this series, which was certainly not my experience with them at all. Nathan made many speakers and attendees very much feel like second class citizens and was not particularly honest in his motivations. Lisa Freeman is presented as being very righteous, and the series certainly doesn't give any attention at all to Nathan Freeman attempting to lure young anarchist women in to certain dependencies in return for sexual favors as being one of the possible reasons for him being sidelined. Perhaps that detail would not have suited them. The fact is Anarchapulco was never the Freemans event. They simply managed it in 2017 and 2018.
Their first attempt at The Mundo Imperial was a logistics disaster and an extremely dysfunctional event. It simply didn't work at all. The speakers, the attendees, pretty much everyone, hated the venue, it was about ten times too large. The second at the Princess Palace in 2018 was big and it was successful, but pretty much a roughly run cluster**** behind the scenes. In 2019 I know for a fact that Jeff Berwick had personally made a huge financial commitment to the event and needed it run properly so he hired a seasoned event manager for it in the hope of at least breaking even. She turned out to be associated with Joby Weeks but who knew at the time... And sure, she was a good organizer, but she had no real clue regarding the nature of the event. That issue maybe could have been fixed if people had been able to put down their egos and work together, but such is never the way with people. Then came the murder and people began cancelling. And then the Freemans started Anarchawakening and deliberately held it at the same time as Anarchapulco purely from spite and in an attempt to divide and undermine the event. That should be obvious to everyone despite Lisa's fluffiness in discussing it as something to "bring healing".
Joby Weeks and BitClub has also been presented as one of the main event sponsors when he was simply one of many. It is very telling that such focus has been placed on Bitclub in particular and yes, we can all see where they will likely take that... after all, it makes for good drama TV, and isn't that what our world craves most?
