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RE: A short statement that speaks volumes about my ideals
I'm not going to go so far as to say that I don't think the government should exist at all but in my mind we could eliminate about 90% of what they do and society for the most part would continue to function.Such a society is possible, but you would need a small, homogenous, high IQ and low time preference population for it to work in a modern post industrial setting. Certainly there are traditional societies that are anarchistic but at the cost of larger economies of scale and the conveniences they produce. The US is way to atomized and fractured for anarchy to work.
probably correct. It still works in smaller communities like mine but I'm sure this has much to do specifically because there are so few of us here. I don't think the system that we have in place here would work in an urban environment.
It's basically a function of entropy. Every open system, whether social or physical succumbs to entropy eventually; it's an inviolable law of nature. Smaller communities with strong social bonds through common culture, ethnicity, and religion are less susceptible to entropic forces of atomization, ethnic/religious conflict, class warfare etc that are common to empires like the U.S.