The Anarchists

Good God - What a train wreck of humanity. This is a compelling documentary - but compelling in the way that one cannot tear oneself away from viewing the scene of a horrible accident. It's a well-done setup, but unfortunately for the filmmakers, the subjects of this documentary are so unlikeable, so cluelessly self-absorbed, and so irredeemably stupid that there is little enlightenment on offer and even less sympathy to give. Anarchists? Hardly - just a motley crew of drug dealers, fakes, frauds, charlatans, and other assorted liars, scammers, and narcissistic idiots. Anarchy as a way of life may already be nothing but a pipe dream for the hopelessly clueless, but if this cast of drug-addled imbeciles, hippies, and meth-heads, and the crypto scammers for whom they serve as useful idiots are any indication, that pipe dream is further away from reality than ever. So kudos to the filmmakers for the effort, but ultimately, one is left not asking, "Who did it?" but rather "Who cares?"

I was at the world premier of Zeitgeist: Moving Forward and after the "new society" documentary I actually took the stage to speak to the crowd. "The Anarchists" proved everything I said that day. All of this anarchy, new culture and society is nothing more than what we already have. Your white skin allows you to run to Mexico and live like kings while hating on the world that gave you that privilege only to create your own hierarchy of wealth and opulence. The hypocrisy is strong with this one. I love how the couples names their kid "Ira Bell" but wanted a Mexican birth certificate for "property purchases". That's because in Mexico American expats cannot own the land their property sits on, their child born in Mexico can.

So many reviewers seem to think we're supposed to admire the subjects of this documentary. Their hubris, naïveté and bag of rocks dumbness combined with the truly dangerous nature of Acapulco for people who don't even speak the language let alone have street smarts tells me that we will eventually see what happens when the idealism of rich people mistaking privilege and hedonism for freedom meets a truly lawless system.

It's a slow build but I am confident it's going somewhere.

This is a good doc. A lot of these reviews seem biased against anarchism in general and exhibit a failure to understand the point of a documentary. For example: you don't have to like the people in a documentary. Some excellent documentaries are about extremely horrible people. This is worth watching. I learned some stuff.

It's funny how people who are leaving reviews are angry about the people in this show. The name of the show makes it sound more extreme then it really is. It's basically about libertarianism and or expats. It about people who want more freedom and less government involvement, or who want to leave their country. This show is very current about todays society. Tonnes of Canadians and Americans have moved to mexico over the last few years for a new lifestyle. Well see what happens in the next episodes.