we need governance in some form
I dunno about that need. I don't think we need it, even now, although life would look very different if we were forced to live without it now, definitely. We have been made dependent on government - via socialized medicine, social security, welfare etc - a symbiosis that is much more beneficial for the rulers than it is for the rest of us. We are trapped. Do we need government just to remain in our traps? I've got Fountainhead on the brain at the moment. What's to stop us from going to a remote place, starting over, and having only a very minimal government? Liberland is an interesting place trying to do just that. I hope they pull it off.
The only time I have anything to do with government now that I am retired is when I have to do paperwork for it, or write checks to it. I could do without both of these. I like that monthly social security check, but I remember big chunks that came out of every single paycheck beginning with my first job, and wonder if I couldn't have done without that, too.