I feel myself sliding further to the anarchist side, which I don't actually like, but it feels like the best option actually available. Choose between various kinds of powermonger or hope that people can self-organise well enough to outlive them. I don't know. I would rather have a trustworthy state, but that is not on the menu. Even in countries I've spent time in where the state is more or less not corrupt, that's only a contingent thing. And it's a minority of places, and a microscopic one if you weight it by population.