I just treat it like a myth.
like the oldfags were some kind of legendary anonymous technowizards that went extinct, or totally disappeared back into the desert after sowing the first sparks of wildfire, of revolution and of revelations about the balances of power in this world. As a myth, they are the ghosts in the machine, the idea of hope and reformation, they're the rumors of white hats, of a cavalry force that will sweep in and run down the enemy at the pivotal moment, the optimistic saboteurs who keep the soul crushing machine not quite as effective by drawing a picture of a frog dressed like a clown, they are the architects of uncanny happenings, the unspoken fear gnawing at the elites when they consider their security, a quiet and undefinable resistance, a looming but undeclared threat.
Everywhere and no where at the same time.
most oldfags are ordinary as fuck and that has to be the most terrifying part of it.
>truck drivers
>construction workers
>cops
>tech developers
>tech support
>electricians
>construction workers
>former soldiers
along with
>CEOs
>Politicians
>Government insiders from multiple nations
>Rogue jews/rival elites.
they wish it was all radicals and terrorists they could just round up cleanly.
but its not.
they tried to contain it, to radicalize it into something they had the tools and mandate to control but it breached containment on 4chan a long time ago.
Its just better for the zeitgeist for anons to remain an idea/symbol, and specifically that idea because anons always saw themselves as ghosts, as anonymous ideas, as the architects of memes, words without authors, art without artists, movements without leaders.
It should be enough to just be an anon that gets it. Whether all this lofty bullshit is a reality or not doesn't even matter, the idea is powerful enough because people are constantly self-organizing and reorganizing on the merit of ideas. That's what it was all about, I think. I just try to keep that specific idea intact.