Anarchy, anyone?

I started reading Thoreau in my sophomore year in high school, and I found that I completely agreed with his ideas about man’s independence from government and freedom to act of his own free will. Then I read 1984, and then I started reading Chomsky. And then I looked around me, surprised at all the ills in this world that have been caused by government.

The more and more I look at it, the more and more it seems that government does more harm than good.

What do you think? Do we need government to function as a species? Is anarchy even possible? Am I going to be hauled off to questioning just for asking this? :)