Origins Of Government

Personal Exploration on the Origins of Government I remember the day when I first qualified my belief that government was inherently bad. The defining moment that led me to see the true nature of government was the day a police officer pointed a gun at me when I was twelve. Yes, you read that correctly, a police officer pointed a gun at a twelve year old. I’ve tried hard to forget that day, I’ve tried so very hard. I don’t like to tell the story because people either believe me because they see the police for what they really are or they just give me strange looks that unnerve me. But I never tell this story as anything other than what it was, the truth the way it happened. It all started with one particularly pleasant day, it was a
Most might say that they formed out of the necessity for administration, because when large groups of people form the need for structure naturally gives rise to organization. But that is not true, while we were a nascent race(approximately 20,000 years ago) we simply did not join together in large unsustainable groups.The whole premise is unreasonable because in the earliest of human societies disease would run more rampant the larger the group was, and on top of that it would be extremely difficult to continuously locate enough food to sustain a group large enough to require a bureaucracy, they could manage for a short time but for any extended period they would inevitably perish. Of course that's without considering the fact that in this natural era men held each other accountable for their actions. So it’s no surprise that roughly 25% of all people(out of a population of roughly 100,000-150,000) were murdered. Others would expect that people would killing each other over trivial things or simply for personal benefit would lead people to form a government, a non-existent concept at the time mind you, purely out of the desire for security. But consider this; if people’s natural inclination was to kill each other when they came into contact, was it the still warm corpses of the murdered who felt we needed an organization to prevent this? Or did the victors of these little skirmishes feel the need to develop an
Like how exactly did it evolve from primitive slaving societies? I’m not necessarily asking where in history did it change from a slaving society to a government,like a proverbial line in the sand, but rather how did the structures we have today gradually form out of necessity? I know enough about the subject to know that the bureaucratic structures we have today didn’t come to be out of malevolence but rather out of a practical need to maintain the system. Moreover, how did people become so dependant on this system that they stopped seeing it as nothing more than shackles? After all people feel government is such an important part of their lives they honestly can’t imagine a world without it. The mere suggestion of it has people blubbering about how would they get utilities, paved roads, or security if there was no government? Do people honestly fail to realize they could provide these things for themselves? Do they fail to see thats what they essentially do when they subjugate themselves to an allegedly infallible, superior, and more competent authority? Do they fail to see that these bureaucratic structures are essentially profiteering from their childish belief that they cannot manage their own lives? Do people not see that regardless of whether or not government provides services that the responsibility of taking care of themselves ultimately falls on them alone? It seems people won’t