Who will build the roads? Who will provide cops, courts, armies? These are the questions statists cannot answer without insisting government is necessary. They trot out the conditions in places where government has gone badly wrong, like Sudan, and call it anarchy. Certainly, they say, without our benevolent leaders, these evils would be visited on us!
Places like Libya, South Africa, and Sudan are poster boys for anarchy IMHO. Clearly, people are flawed, and putting flawed people in charge of others has horrible consequences for the ruled. I'm agin' it.
But we need to coordinate our efforts, and government is a way to do this. Many people are convinced we need government for this reason. Others point to Libya, Iraq, and Chechnya, and the fact that people are subjugated and destroyed by enemies if their governments aren't powerful and wise enough to prevent it. According to them, we need not just government, but empire.
They are right--as long as madmen leading bands of thugs are powerful and pathological enough to do us harm. We (those of us who have been spat out by public education) learn early on that cliques of people are savage, and will undertake any cruelty for no more purpose than entertainment.
Governments that are savage enough to wreak Libya, Laos, or the like are also cruel enough to commit the Holodomor, or the Holocaust. Depredations of their own people inevitably destabilizes governments, no matter which clowns run the circus betimes, or what is chipped on rock or scribbled on paper to declaim their purpose, limits, or otherwise. Thugs will thug, and part of thuggery is acquiring the power to harm more people.
The worst psychopaths inevitably acquire power in every institution, because they are eager to do whatever is necessary to seize that power. This is the source of my own aversion to government. It is a principle as certain as gravity, as math, as water being wet.
The history of the world is a litany of sorrow, because government is necessary and intolerable.
For such history as we are availed (dubious at best, duplicitous without doubt) never before have we had the current technology to provide for the needs of people, and building roads and savaging hapless victims has never been easier, nor more effective. Both the good and evils of government are multiplied by the technology our industries employ.
Farmers use drones and AI to apply fertilizer and biocides only where it is needed, as an example of the good technology can do, and white phosphorus withers whole villages at a go, while the Avars needed to sew cats into the bellies of pregnant women one at a time, to exemplify the horror madmen employ.
I have many times shown how technology empowers individuals over institutions. Since the dawn of fire, pointy sticks, and dogs, the ability of a lone defender to preclude thuggery has increased. Today our governments employ secret cutting edge technologies as quickly and covertly as possible in the ongoing quest for empire, and most of us are availed of technology only through governmental institutions. Our water and sewer, electricity and all the media we are served, and transport (roads foremost) is all delivered via institutions either blessed and created by government, or by government itself.
The control institutions exert seems inevitable, and unquestionably degrades the advantages technology might deliver, yet improves our lots over what we could do ourselves, since we don't have personal water delivery systems, sewage treatment plants, or airports, nor do we have armies to protect us from gangs of bad actors.
That's only true today because of how technology has been developed. It is technologically possible, and almost certainly economically more efficient, for our homes to extract water from the air, or to drill a well, and compost our excretions than it is for the utilities to deliver it through their communal grids. Transport no longer depends on roads, since the power of flight has made them obsolete.
Many will scoff at that statement, despite the fact that flight has long made it possible for individuals to be transported aerially. Runways, the danger of crashes, and traffic concerns are probably foremost amongst their objections. However, the first flight technology needed no runways and remains viable today: hot air balloons. The balloon principle has not been developed to provide personal or commercial transport for reasons, and none of them are that it isn't suitable. Rather it makes the control of institutions less viable.
Roads make piracy easy, and one of the most obvious feature of government today is the pirates it employs to patrol our roads.
Transport becomes far more obviously facilitated today by the advent of VTOL devices, such as drones. Hybridization between balloons and drones is not only simple, it is most obviously prevented from being developed by institutions, because it would dramatically challenge their ability to impose tolls.
Given the advent of technology, the empowerment of individuals is controlled as necessary by controlling information. It is the revolution in information technology that is most desperately controlled by government, and presents perhaps the most dire threat not only to such freedom as we enjoy, but the very essence of humanity itself. Lately research has been conducted into means of controlling human thoughts and actions, and this research is bearing covert fruit.
No more evil acts have been committed than those undertaken in researching how to control our minds and actions. MKUltra, Mockingbird, and many more, demonstrate both the power and danger of such information technology, and the trail of dead decries our continued oppression by government.
Never before has the power to be free been more potent, as technology has continued to enable individuals to do that which it has required armies to undertake without it. One US marine with an M-16 could have utterly destroyed the Avars. We have much better weapons available to us today, and I won't detail them here, but point out that chemically propelled projectiles are centuries old technology.
While it seems antithetical, it is quite possible (and necessary IMHO) for groups of folks that would be free to work together to assess technology and consider how best to develop it to provide the benefits that seem to require government. The fact is that government isn't necessary today, but is imposed due to historical and pathological reasons.
Our very ability to conceive of freedom, and how technology can create and secure it, is perhaps the most important technology extant, and government is desperate to suppress it. Our minds are shaped and controlled from before birth to preclude our escape from our masters, and developing our homes and communities to protect us from them.
However, as this post proves, technology is only possible if physics allows it. Physics has not been shown - yet - to enable the complete dominance of the thoughts in a living mind. As a result, people think for themselves, out of the boxes crafted to confine them.
The first thing we need to do to become free is intend it.
I do. Do you? If you do, let's work together to consider how best to develop technology to create homes and communities that provide us the benefits we seek, and prevent the harms we abhor. There will be impediments, chiefly the conception of freedom and how to craft it, but infiltration, sabotage, and outright oppression are sure to oppose every attempt. That is not sufficient to dissuade me, as those are happening anyway, and absent true security, are going to ultimately result in the destruction of the human mind and will by government of psychopaths intent only on their own aggrandizement.
Nothing is worse than that possible future, and I will seek to prevent it.
Join me! Let's make the world a better place for our beloved posterity, so their felicity, and that of them as come after, is assured forever, wherever they go.
If we do it right, there is no place they won't go and thrive joyfully.
Peace.
