I am an anarchist (although I prefer the term Autarchist). I note that I have not encountered my understanding of how autarchy will eventuate, and prevent institutional power from ever again arising, elsewhere in literature or in the considerations linked here.

My understanding of society is based on technological advance. Prior to the rise of hominids (even far less intellectually capable vertebrates have capacity to invent and use technology) gangs had the ability to project force, and actual individual freedom was limited by such hierarchical mechanisms. This was mitigated by the ability to flee, which limited the oppression exerted by polities to that which was less annoying than going away and handling your business on your own.

Then chipped rocks, domesticated dogs, pointy sticks and fire increased the relative power of individuals versus institutions, such as gangs of thugs.

Today, that balance of power between institutions and individuals is increasingly tipping towards individuals, because means of production of goods and services necessary to the best quality of life are being decentralized. In prehistoric times, technology referred to above was completely decentralized. It didn't take capital and factories to chip rocks. Up until the agrarian revolution, technology favored individuals, while intersocietal competition (war) necessitated the tolerance of institutions because by parasitizing the power of myriad individuals institutions became able to defend societies and conquer others.

When the industrial revolution eventuated, institutions became vastly more powerful relative to individuals, and society reflected the decrease in the power of individuals by instituting a reduction in freedom. Today, we see that the cutting edge of technological advance across all industries is decentralization. Physics makes distributed means of production more efficient and beneficial to society, and this reverses the increase in power institutions gained from industrialization that required institutional parasitization to enable goods and services providing the best quality of life to be produced.

Amongst modern technological advances are security mechanisms. Firearms are 1000 year old tech - clearly obsolete, compared to nukes and fighter jets. But we see that institutions remain dependent on firearms for force projection. Why? Because parasitization depends on gangs of thugs, and the optimum tech for arming gangs of thugs remains firearms. Nukes and fighter jets can't kick down your door at 5 am and drag you off to the gulag to 'persuade' you to pay taxes.

However lesser means than WMDs are very sufficient to prevent individuals from being 'persuaded' by gangs of thugs, who are made of meat, after all. One example I use (because it's obvious, unable to be prevented by any means at all, and perhaps the least effective mechanism) is microwave moats. The USG has notoriously developed microwave crowd control mechanisms, so the tech is proven to work. Microwaves are literally available as scrap and are trivially acquired, so all that's preventing their adoption is the failure of people to grasp that the ability to prevent armed gangs of thugs from taking half their income already exists.

Psyops, propaganda, and indoctrination is how institutions presently maintain their elevated power relative to individuals. It is easy to project that this is a time limited mechanism, as once that information gets out 'in the wild' it ain't disappearing. With the ongoing development and distribution of decentralized means of production, the many and myriad modern technologies that enable individuals to provide their security from armed gangs of thugs will begin to disseminate.

Institutions such as Walmart aren't going to sell microwave moats, but individuals and communities will make them.

Something will arise that has never existed before: security from gangs of thugs. The Colt .45 was touted as The Equalizer of formerly weak and vulnerable folks with armed thugs, and it was a paradigm shift that enabled the largest institutions to eliminate their competition. Lesser gangs were unable to compete with governments because people could be secure from lesser gangs.

Decentralization will again create a paradigm shift, and this time it will make institutional power obsolete completely. Autarchy will become the reality because force projection will no longer be possible. Do not make the mistake of thinking that microwave moats are defeatable, because doing so neglects what I stated earlier: I use that example because it's relatively unimportant. An unlimited range of modern technologies similarly prevent meatsacks from kicking down your door, and it is impossible to even list all the ways clever tinkering monkeys like us will devise.

Two choices for society will then exist: genocide, or autarchy. Certainly some psychopaths will prefer to kill 'em all rather than eschew power over them, but rational people will note that genocide will collapse their quality of life, and such murderous psychopaths are likely to be successfully eradicated.

Then we will be free. Soon, individuals will gain the ability to make and use their own spacecraft. Doubt? SpaceX has shown that space travel is being decentralized with orders of magnitude improvements in efficiency. Individuals have already made attempts to build their own rockets. Frankly, it's just a matter of time and engineering. Once we escape the surly bonds of Earth, no conceivable institutional force could reach such illimitable possessions as free men will attain.

Autarchy is inevitable, and the above sources simply do not address technological advance, which is the singular feature of the human species. This autarchy is but predictable today, and has not eventuated yet. However, the only thing that can prevent it is the extinction of the human species itself. No matter how harsh, violent, or totalitarian repression intent on preventing it becomes, such efforts short of complete extinction can but delay it. Such delay will cause decrease in the quality of life by preventing technology from being used, because physics mandates what technology can exist, not will to power or political control, and it mandates decentralization.

Eventually, all institutions self destruct as corruption renders them less effective by diverting their resources to the psychopaths running them that are only interested in their aggrandizement. Even the most draconian evil empire will fall, and freedom will become able to rise on the backs of decentralized producers.

Thanks!