Awesome discussion, and I am better educated regarding anarchy after reading it.

I must point out that one of the compelling problems regarding society is covert agreements. While the definition of community as a geographical collection of free individuals is admirable, throughout history we see that powerful individuals have gained control of regions and compelled communities to obedience. Such communities are unlikely to confess their centralization and subjection to an overlord due to compulsion, or even slavish agreement with their status.

Thus anarchies are prone to subterfuge and internal conflict with statist subcultures that are variously competent to rise to control ever increasing populations and exert ever increasing power.

For this reason I submit that anarchy, or more properly autarchy, or self rule, will remain unable to persist until individuals are secure against groups. We see that decentralization of means of production are the cutting edge of technological advance across all industries today, and this particularly includes relevant security technologies. It is obvious that gangs of armed thugs are not the cutting edge of security technology, being merely the optimum mechanism for institutional force projection, as firearms are 1000 year old tech. Better security tech has long existed, but is not suitable to force projection.

Drones can't kick down your door at 5am and drag you off to be persuaded to pay your taxes. They can only kill you. However, drones and improved security tech does prevent armed meatbags from kicking down your door at 5am, and the equalization of individuals with armed groups is ongoing.

When we are competent to produce our own security from groups, we will be free. Until that ability arises, we will only be able to achieve limited success in that endeavor.

Thanks!