I don't see how anything Gordon wrote implies that an anarchist/free world would be a static world with no conflicts. etc. Our culture places great emphasis upon the ideal of the "individual," and finds it profitable to break every social connection that could exist; the result is a narcissistic, paranoid, and ultimately homogeneous society -- both static AND regressive in terms of anything that matters. If you are born and raised in such a world, you cannot even comprehend how things could be otherwise. Yes, we are all stunted and brutalized by this world.
Therefore I have to laugh when people worry that anarchism will impose some kind of corecive, antlike, pacifying existence....I mean, that's where we are now. As for the holy individual, I have met very, very few real individuals in my life...and I am not likely to meet many more. I'm not talking about the "individual" capitalist ideologues rave about -- that impoverished, helpless, frightened creature who shops his way into a personality and life style. There's legions of those.
Joanna