“The only thing I should have power over is myself, and likewise no one should have power over me” is more than a tad ironic a sentiment for someone touting another's philosophy or the value of art. Art and philosophy are valuable *precisely* because they have power over you.

One can advocate the necessity of a state not because people are inherently flawed, but because people are inherently vulnerable, and this is a nuance that I feel is often missed. We are always already implicated and reliant on each other. It is foolish to propose a myth of self-ownership. It is foolish to act as though a power imbalance does not already exist between a parent and their child, or between the able-bodied and the disabled, or in a myriad of other ways.

If your opposition to a state is on the basis that power corrupts, is it not also true that power corrupts in these instances as well? This is how oppression takes place.