On top of what I consider to be utterly extraordinary film making craft, this show really gives me a new appreciation of the nature of anarchy. There is a very real sense in which "anarchy" -- a kind of lack of predictably -- is always the resultant state after a large enough change to a power structure -- if it were more predictable then the rules of the incumbent power structure would be likely to predict and prevent such a large change.

I feel like this idea is present at many levels in the story -- including the dynamics of Elliot's personality disorder and his attempts to construct trust in his perception of reality and his own motivations.

Intermingling these themes with the idea of hacking -- the art of finding/manipulating unexpected behavior in systems -- is incredibly rich -- and mesmerizing.