A Boring Dystopia

We don't actually know that it doesn't work, because as I've said, all modern democracies have a particular flaw and we don't know what happens when that flaw is fixed. I would also say that what you're describing as "anarchism" is just another form of democracy; democracy is a set of principles, not a concrete system. And that anarchism would in practice not be as different from what we have today as you're imagining. Instead of top-down it would be bottom-up, maybe (which has some problems of its own), but you still end up with elected representatives at higher levels of governance, because even with modern technology it would be impractical to have all the stakeholders of the Rhine, for example, do consensus-building in one big meeting. And those representatives would need to be held to account, just like today.

I think it's far more fruitful to look at the actual problems we're having and what structurally is causing them and try to do something about those causes, instead of going on about what systems would or wouldn't work, because there's never going to be a perfect system, we're always going to have to solve problems as they come. Especially when clearly the problem here isn't the system itself, but the existence of power structures that exist outside of the system and are therefore not constrained by the system, allowing them to undermine the system. If solving that problem results in something that can be described as "socialism" or "anarchism", so be it, but one thing it absolutely has to be, is a democracy. Because again, anything that is not a democracy is going to be inherently more susceptible to corruption (and therefore be ineffective at solving problems) than even a mediocre implementation of democracy.