I'm not an anarchist. I think we can have a sane and effective "establishment".  But the establishment is going to need to learn some new tricks; they are very slow on the uptake.

It used to be they could lie to us, they could "control the narrative". That is no longer possible due to the Internet and our "back channel" communications. However, their techniques have not changed. They continue to try to deceive and to control the narrative. This is not working anymore and just causes massive lost of trust and social cohesion. It is not working for them (we see through the bullshit, and/or we start believing in buillshit because we don't trust them) and it is not working for us (we lose trust in them and cannot work together to save our lives).

They will never achieve control of the narrative again. That world is strictly in the past. That assumption should be abandoned.

The new reality requires any effective establishment to be up front and honest with it's constituents. Shocker, I know, but it turns out that this actually works better in the long run as trust can be reestablished, and conversations (under the rubric of free speech) and edify all parties once again.

The larger the establishment, the slower they are to change.