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Though a loss of structure would force people initially to fend for themselves and survive, the natural progression would always be for some people to become 'leader' figures for others. No one person knows everything, is capable of everything and has every skill. I like learning from others when I can and I also value the power of cooperation. In your view, anarchism seems to be a form of extreme individualism. Every man for himself. So what about family, or friends? Do you help them, or not? And if you do, is that not just another form of social structure? No man is an island and all that. The fact that we share the world with others makes it so that structure forms, though it doesn't necessarily have to have one person telling everyone else what to do.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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