Be it like talking about the second coming or not, I would say the difference between an interregnum and a permanent absence of government is like the difference between jumping off a cliff and flying. The former is a temporary state that may feel like the latter, but it’s not unless you have a means of sustaining it. Just because you have always come off badly when jumping off cliffs doesn’t mean you can’t create a hang glider. The closest we’ve had to a social hang glider has probably been the kibbutzim. To assume that no central government necessarily means death and destruction is badly wrong. At least, I’ve co-incidentally recently finished reading what is supposed to be one of the best surveys of this question (George Woodcock’s ‘Anarchism’), which book I would highly recommend for a better understanding of what “no government” means.
