“Self determination, individualism, private property and the right — and responsibility — that you will succeed OR FAIL on your own merits is the opposite of totalitarianism. By definition.”
Wrong. What, exactly, would you amount to without society? Did you derive language on your own? What would your “self determination” amount to without the ability to reason. That you will succeed or fail on your own merits is a delusion. Your success or failure is in large part due to society.
Totalitarianism is defined as a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.
Anarchy is defined as absence of government and absolute freedom of the individual.
Sorry to have to tell you this, but we are, in fact, in the age of the imbecile. Totalitarianism can never be complete short of turning people into robots without free will. True anarchy would mean a return to a very distant anthropological past and likely extinction.
The point of the article is that we succeed or fail depending on how well we help each other as opposed to how well we compete against each other.