Comments by "" (@ericsaxon5736) on "How to Kill a Civilization…." video.
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@AwesomeSauce696969 Ultimately, this part of the video felt like an attempt at prosthelytization of Libertarianism and it came up with a failed conclusion that ALL people hate government and hate leadership. It felt quite preachy.
The problem with this sort of conclusion is that people forget that Libertarianism has been attempted as a model of governing and failed miserably. In one of the New England states here in the U.S. Libertarians invaded and took over a township with sheer numbers.
They got rid of all local taxes, got rid of all local services, and about 3 years later, all the Libertarian geniuses had to eat crow because their Utopia wound up with uncollected trash piling up, which attracted bears, which ultimately resulted in bear attacks against the families of said geniuses, living there. The geniuses wound up creating a crime spree, because they thought they'd save a few pennies on electricity when they turned off all the lampposts at night.
Governments (nobles, priests, congressmen) don't exist because someone is forced to have them, they exist because they are the original and most primitive form of job specialization, starting with the Chief Hunter in the Hunter Gatherer Cave.
Human beings like having someone to lead, to remove the trash, to prevent the spread of diseases, to alleviate the poisoning of water sources and ultimately, to protect ourselves from lions and tigers and bears, oh my. :D
We might not love it but all societies use 'nobles' or 'elected officials' or whoever, to do a job of civic administration on their behalf. Because having to deal with a bit of tax collection/oppression is still a 1,000 times better than than 10,000 years later, having to live in a cave, with stone age technology, being worried about a random bear attack or a gang of marauding rapists and murderers.
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