Hive account@larkenrose Clearly I'm not going to make you reevaluate your life's work. But here's what I'm trying to say.

1. I can buy a type of anarchy working in very small communities where everyone knows everyone else.
2. I cannot buy an anarchist model working to . . . "govern" a society the size of the USA, or Britain
   or RoadIsland, for that matter.
3. No power creates a power vaccume, and I've never ever ever read of a situation in history where a power vaccume went unfilled.
4. So you create an anarchist society. I have the charisma to create a military force. We show up and literally, rather than medaforicly enslave you and your people.
   4A. The Pax Rmana and now the Pax Americana prevent me and my army from doing this to either state, which is half the point of government..
5. If a person knows all the facts about, to pick where I live, how the United States Government works, most people will describe government as at the worst a necisary evil, and at best a positive institution.
6. Europe after Rome and before the establishment of nation states was worse by any measure you can name than it was under rome. What were, in essence, small towns fought one another for power and this went on for a thousand years.
7. I've never come across a human society in all my reading of history that functioned without a government. There are many different forms of government but they all include a state monopoly on , violence, taxes, some kind of law.
8. To me, this is significant.
9. If you don't like this government you can move to a different society with different or less government, but I know of nowhere in the world where you can live under no government.