Hi, @mikemorris, thanks for this well-stated and clearly reasoned piece. I would answer your title question in the affirmative. In fact, I would say that I presently enjoy "anarchy" because I only recognize one human being (other than myself) as having an inherent right to rule me. That person is commonly known as Jesus, and I believe that He is literally the God who made me and all the universe.

I can easily, however, cooperate and collaborate with other voluntaryists because I strongly believe in the nonaggression principle. In other words, I will never seek to "rule" others.

There are certain pragmatic areas in which I (temporarily) "go along to get along" with the thugs who pretend to rule me; but I feel that the more I am able to "fly under the radar," the better I learn how to keep wealth out of their hands, and the more influence I have on my neighbors to help them see and recognize the value of living by principle, the better off all of society will become.

Will we ever reach a total "absence of the state" circumstance? Perhaps not. Nevertheless, I am more hopeful now than ever that we can and will go a long ways in that direction as I continue to see distributed, non-coercive tools (like blockchains and cryptocurrencies) being developed. I hope to see the state collapse under its own weight and become progressively less powerful.