I think you can do better than that Doug. Just look what the "masses left to their own" accomplished - Cambodia, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Rwanda....
There is a good reason why virtually every human society has developed hierarchically organized institutions. Of course, as Aristotle observed, these institutions can degenerate and become dysfunctional, but that is not a justification for a mob anarchy. The trick is not abolish institutions, but to effectively guard them from abuses of power. If you have a pothole in a pothole in a bridge, you do not destry the bridge, you fix the pothole, no?
Wojtek