Nark,
Anarchy does threaten the middle-class ideal of "security". But otoh the worst of history is the result of hierarchically organised systems. Wars and genocides are planned and organised from "above".
I agree 100%.
For untold hundred of thousands of years humans had no government, they say the land area we now call Iraq, was the cradle of civilization(maybe a not so correct term) or governments(empires) which no doubt had it roots in domination of humans thruogh fear, of attack, and the amassing of armies to gain control and the wealth of nieghboring cities and branching out more and more to the building of empires which have been won by killing on a greater scale than when there were just independant villages, and before that we as a speicies where hunter gatherers mostly rooming free.
The larger the land area that these rulers gained, the larger these armies had to become and the bigger the slaughter, and the greater the cuelty. They also brought us organized religion who catered to these rulers, and formulated doctrine to gain the rulers favor, and pronounce God's or the gods blessing and on them and make them blind to compassion as they carved out these empires.