The state is inevitable for two reasons.
One, it has been scientifically proven over and over again that the maximum number of people you can be acquainted with is 150. Beyond 150, everyone else is just an abstract concept whom you're not even acquainted with, meaning they're much easier to rob, cheat, and lie to. Since we simply MUST live in communities greater than 150, we also MUST have laws and redresses against the inevitable robbing, cheating, and lying.
Secondly, while I don't agree with some of the details of Phoenix's two modes, I do agree that powerful people will always exist. Some of these people will be beneficial for the rest of us (the 95%), and some will be sociopathic and harmful. But, in both cases, the 95% will never agree to let powerful people function without some form of violence-backed surveillance.
That violence-backed surveillance is called Government.
One, it has been scientifically proven over and over again that the maximum number of people you can be acquainted with is 150. Beyond 150, everyone else is just an abstract concept whom you're not even acquainted with, meaning they're much easier to rob, cheat, and lie to. Since we simply MUST live in communities greater than 150, we also MUST have laws and redresses against the inevitable robbing, cheating, and lying.
Secondly, while I don't agree with some of the details of Phoenix's two modes, I do agree that powerful people will always exist. Some of these people will be beneficial for the rest of us (the 95%), and some will be sociopathic and harmful. But, in both cases, the 95% will never agree to let powerful people function without some form of violence-backed surveillance.
That violence-backed surveillance is called Government.