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I wouldn't say large groups of people invent governments. I think they arise from infighting between small groups of people and then a majority of people that d
by pvarangot 5y ago
I wouldn't say large groups of people invent governments. I think they arise from infighting between small groups of people and then a majority of people that didn't really care much about what was being fought about are just "ok with it".
I don't know if government is a terrible idea, but if you agree that monopolies are a terrible idea then maybe at least you should give people against the concept of a government some attention regarding the "monopoly on violence" contradiction that's pretty much alive in all forms of government in place today.
- mavhc 5y agoThere's no large functioning society without government though, it appears to be the natural stable state. If you want to gather 100,000 of your most random friends and try a new idea though, that's great. But history suggests you'll invent government.
- pvarangot 5y agoYou could have said the same thing but change "without government" to "with electricity" in like 1830 and be right. History doesn't suggest anything, people suggest things, and "it didn't happen yet so it will never happen" is useless as a historical argument. History suggests what the stable state of something is as much as reading tea leafs suggests it.
- mavhc 5y agoAnd all the people who choose to live without electricity are weird. Many groups have tried to live without government, which have succeeded at scale?