I've never seen Anarchy as anything more than as some kind of very temporary state in-between different kinds of social order.

I suspect the dichotomy/spectrum isn't even between Totalitarianism and something else, it's between large-scale Empire and small-scale tribalism/bandism. Because the more, and more diverse. peoples you try to shove under one umbrella, the more totalitiarianist you naturally have to become. Families need fewer rules (laws) than mixed-race, multicultural, multi-religion (ie, diverse) empires do. Monocultural but multitribal kingdoms/nation-states would fall in-between.

It's all a matter of being too big being as bad as being too small. The globalists need their totalitarianism. Just like the Romans did.