I'm not stating anything about "human nature". Just observing historical facts.

I'm actually also in favor of step-by-step change of the existing system but I suppose in a different way and in a different direction. My vision would be one of alternatives springing up and step-by-step making the old institutions more and more irrelevant until they finally fade into well-deserved historical obscurity

Agree with Mike that expecting people who have been given (close to) absolute power with (little to) no control mechanisms or personal responsibility for damage & failure...expecting people in that position to voluntary constrain themselves and become "benevolent protectors" seems very naive to me. And they say that anarchists are a bunch of idealists. How about believing in the Utopia of creating a government, populated with benevolent protectors, which not only try but also achieve the greatest good for the greatest number..? Wow, some crazy shit, right there!

You know, choosing between the evils of the state and "going back to the caves" - are you aware this is your imagination presenting the situation as a false dichotomy? Truth is, neither you, nor me, nor anyone else, no matter how much they might claim they do...we DO NOT know what exactly would happen in the absence of government. Believing it's going to be "back to the caves" says much more about your mind, than about reality or "human nature" or any such thing. But I think we have established quite firmly, that you do believe to know these things, so I don't expect you to concede this point