SELF-GOVERNANCE IN A STATELESS SOCIETY

It is a myth that loss of authority leads to chaos. Infact the very presence of  it gives rise to all the conflicts in society. By having a authority a society passes on the responsibility of regulating itself to an external agency. This external agency (which we call government) is then ASSUMED to discharge its duties effectively and in the best possible manner. But the problem is that there is no subsequent agency to regulate its functions and that's where the problem arises.
Even Mahatma Gandhi called the state a "soulless machine" which, ultimately, does the greatest harm to mankind beacuse of this inherent lack of accountability in it.
Apart fom this, when society gives up its responsibility it also gives up its power. It loses its voice to something which is created out of itself. It is more of a mental block rather than a reality which clouds the collective wisdom that a society needs some external agency to control itself.

A society can govern itself unaided by an external agency. It is possible only when
1) That external agency is removed
2) Desicion making based on the consensus is taken up in society

The fact is that authority today has created much differences within us because of which we cannot get straight to the second step. Another fact is that a society needs to become tolerant of the differences existing in itself so that consensus-making can be accomplished.

A society which is not tolerant of differences that exist because of religion, caste , gender etc. will find consensus-making difficult and will succumb to the hold of authority again and again.