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 For ancaps, there are ideas out there about how to decentralize and privatize essential government functions but it's pretty much based on a faith that the market will provide the innovation needed to meet those demands.

Most of them argue that the worst thing that could happen is already the status quo.
Sometimes the warped perspective sounds a little culty to be honest and I say that as a moderate libertarian. 
 I don't hate the overall direction they are pushing toward less government control. I think it is a net positive for us. I agree with you; there is a bit of cultish behavior that I also observe. 

Technically, they are also not wrong. We are living in a very corrupt system. We need a bit of an antithesis to challenge the current thesis, so we can have some kind of synthesis. 🤔 
 Ya, I would also like to move a lot in that direction.
Putting it as a dialectic makes it sound ironically that a Marxist said it lol