What frightens you more, anarchy or abusive authority?

That IS the definition.

You are, of course, correct. There have been a few practical models of anarchism, like anarcho-syndacalism, but the current state of international politics and ecological emergency have pretty much made that plan, and others like it, defunct.

But by the same token, i don't imagine that you are suggesting that naively accepted authority is the solution...man, i didn't realize i had stepped into a 4-year-old thread when i originally posted.

Government cannot be relied upon to regulate itself just as the economy cannot be relied to do so. As I noted above government, our regulatory creation, must be subjected always to the scrutiny of our democratic ideals. Government must be protected against unbridled lust for power and the economy must be protected against unregulated greed. No political or economic system is self-maintaining. To assume they can be is the fantasy of utopians