Absolutely.
Anarchism in the popular imagination means wearing funny headgear and throwing bombs, but the real meaning is as you say, "anti hierarchy", or perhaps more accurately, "anti hierarchy-that-can't-justify-itself", since I guess some forms of hierarchy are necessary and mutually beneficial"
Anyway, in the spirit of totally ignoring Raymond's pedantic and arbitrary missives, we (a hackerspace, somewhere) have produced our own variation, which is still part of the "game of life" glider sequence, but looks much better, looks sort of like an 'h' for hacker, or someone sitting typing, or a group of people (of different shades!) listening to a presenter, etc, etc, etc:
http://i.imgur.com/ba7o9i0.png
Anyway, in the spirit of totally ignoring Raymond's pedantic and arbitrary missives, we (a hackerspace, somewhere) have produced our own variation, which is still part of the "game of life" glider sequence, but looks much better, looks sort of like an 'h' for hacker, or someone sitting typing, or a group of people (of different shades!) listening to a presenter, etc, etc, etc: http://i.imgur.com/ba7o9i0.png