Now, let me jump to something that appalled me:

I am appalled that you are appalled. In fact, I'm shocked, appalled, insulted, and righteously indignant. Where do you get off good sir? WHERE?

Nah. I kid. ;) It was more a light jab than anything. Although I do have to say that I do find the concept of Anarchy in the sense of government uncompelling. While the concept might work fine in smaller groups, the more you scale things up and the more complex things become, it becomes readily apparent that a form of social structure is needed to get things done.

I must state that I find it unreasonable to discuss older-days usage of something in context of how it matters in the present.

Well there's a few reasons to discuss early man and religion. Reasons one and two, because we can and because it's fun. Reason number three though is a big one, and that's because sometimes to understand where things are now, it helps to look at how things started.

Therefore, I ask you: what is it good for?

That's a doozy of a question and a fair question all around. That question alone could start a whole thread and then some. If it's okay with you, I'd actually prefer to table the topic at the moment and make it the subject of the next post. In fact, you could start the thread when you're ready and make a shout out to me. I would love that.