For some reason, any time I hear someone decrying the necessity of Big Bad Government and calling for its abolition, I'm put in mind of Family Guy's 100th episode "Stewie Kills Lois" in which (spoiler alert) Stewie kills Lois, before running off glorying in his victory. Then he falls over and cries for his mummy.
What I'm getting at is it's all very well positing the removal of Government and indeed perfectly laudable to seek accountability for corruption and consequences. Unfortunately, some system of governance in whatever form it takes is - at least for the time being - inescapable. Even (especially?) in a state of total anarchy there would be an ever-widening gulf between controllers and controlled, and no consistent or reliable way to address it. Certainly the corruption element would not, could not, be controlled and must inevitably, even exponentially, go spiralling through the roof. Sooner or later, you're going to end up crying for your mummy.
What I'm getting at is it's all very well positing the removal of Government and indeed perfectly laudable to seek accountability for corruption and consequences. Unfortunately, some system of governance in whatever form it takes is - at least for the time being - inescapable. Even (especially?) in a state of total anarchy there would be an ever-widening gulf between controllers and controlled, and no consistent or reliable way to address it. Certainly the corruption element would not, could not, be controlled and must inevitably, even exponentially, go spiralling through the roof. Sooner or later, you're going to end up crying for your mummy.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
