Patchwork does present some models for which these techcomm/ancap groups can persist.

Our anarcho-tyranny was engineered from the Top Down over the last 50 years, using the Powerful Tools of Administrative govt created by the New Deal. The New Deal was of course benevolent 1933-1965. I mention it’s benevolence as 1] most people are still in love with the long dead New Dealers and their well ruled, just, and economically beneficial state and 2] powerful and unchecked by design administrative govt in the hands of the malicious must be confronted as a central challenge and threat. Without that nothing else is even possible.

Now some wish to infiltrate this Cathedral – conveinient enough when it’s already you’re employer..hmm? Some think they will rise and somehow turn it around. That is save the Cathedral for the good – their good and oh yes “civilizations”. Which ignores that this Cathedral has powerful and entrenched interests, the chief driver of the rachet ever towards more, more, more.

BTW as regards #1 that includes certainly much of NRxn, who are here because of banishment and exile from paradise Bubble. As regards #2 there’s no running from THAT. If you run it pursues you, but notice something pls – not very physically brave. Fat cowboys with guns just faced them down in Nevada with billions at stake, yet they folded. Hint.

until the Dutch come in from Java some decades later and kill them all.

So much for flourishing trading polities.

According to wiki,
“Catallaxy or catallactics is an alternative expression for the word “economy”. Whereas the word economy suggests that people in a community possess a common and congruent set of values and goals, catallaxy suggests that the emergent properties of a market (prices, division of labor, growth, etc.) are the outgrowths of the diverse and disparate goals of the individuals in a community.”

Are you saying that through the natural ‘market’ tendencies, the problem of roving bands of vibrant youth will take care of itself? How? Will warlords arise?