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 So if you have a think called governments that keep infringing on your anarchist default do you really have anarchism? Or is the infringement of the anarchist default the actual status quo? 
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 You have anarchy at all points (No rulers in a true sense). It is only if you ideologically submit to a ruler that you exit anarchy and become a subject to whatever game you subscribe. Federalism, democracy, monarchy, or communism. Those are all games you can choose to play. But life itself has no ruler. Do you see? 
 So all you need is everyone in the world to reject all the major states simultaneously to get to your dream world. Sounds reasonable. 
 No, I don't need to do anything. Think like this: gravity is the way of the world. Everyone participating else has a wing suit and are flapping their arms furiously to keep themselves 100feet in the air. I tell them I just stand on the ground. I am telling you, you don't need the wing suits. You suggest if we all get rid the wing suits we would all die. It's easier to live on this planet by walking on the ground but everyone just keeps flapping.