Memes of Production

No, not really, I've perused anarchist literature. I didn't have to be told anything.

You're right though, DIY self governance is a lot of work. And the more people you interact with, the less you believe that a significant portion of people are willing to put in that work. They will offload that effort onto others in the vast majority of cases. Representative democracies provide a framework to do so. Eliminating representative democracy doesn't suddenly imbue the average person with the will to engage locally to fill the void, it just makes them more likely to offload that effort to whoever has the will to become a demagogue (i.e. charismatic assholes). It devolves into "anarcho"-capitalism.

I'm not against the principles of anarchism, to the contrary I see it as the desirable end goal. I just don't think it's a useful contemporary framework, I don't think we're getting there in our lifetime (barring some kind of transhumanist functional immortality that breaks the timeframe of "lifetime"). The sociopolitical automation you seek isn't just going to pop up in a power vacuum, it's going to require a long, incremental process. As Agent K said, "A person is smart, people are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals".

Society progresses in generational steps. You don't steer it like a speedboat, you steer it like an aircraft carrier. Unfortunately we don't get to be the anarchic generation, the best we can do is nudge society in that general direction, and raise children to carry on the Work.