We have many strong governments. They all become despotic. All. Every time.
I do not need to be governed. I would like some decent neighbors, way off in the distance and that's about it. There are quite a lot of areas that are largely self-governing. I wish to grow those areas so that all that wish to live without every thing done or acquired is taxed to death.
No one needs to be governed as long as all their neighbors are "decent" which I think means "don't behave in a way that impinges on what I want" But that is never the case. Most often decent enough people want to have the freedom to behave in ways that make it impossible for other people to behave in the same way. For instance if everyone wanted to subsistence hunt, we'd run out of game.
The problem isn't that governments exist it is that they don't die. Colonies of cells collaborating to make a human do better than single cells, but eventually things go haywire and the human dies. This is super important to allow the next generation to try to do better. We need more space for people to try new ideas without being smothered by 200 years of law.
Your first sentence should have stopped at this point:
"No one needs to be governed."
It is the case in many places. Your assertion of never is really overbearing and quite a statement about your own views of fellow humans than it says anything about fellow humans.
How do you propose to not have a state become tyrannical?
"How do you propose to not have a state become tyrannical?"
To be frank, I believe this to be an impossibility.
Yes, but so is not having a state. We need to be able to iterate. Personally I'd like to try limiting the size of the corpus of law. The consistion should say something like all laws on the books must fit within 10kB zipped, and 100kB unzipped and be comprehensible to a median 10th grader.
That at least limits how invasive a government can be. You'd need some additional protections so the law can't be "we can do what we want."
They already tried that, the lawyers ignored it...
Who tried it? I considered having the limit include case law as well, but I haven't thought it through as well as I should since I am not in charge of anything.
I can live perfectly well without the state. Just because others can't doesn't mean I should have to suffer.
My legislation limitation would be that any bill longer than 3 pages of 12 point type double spaced would need to be made public for a minimum of 14 days plus another two per page over 3.
Yes, this would make most budget bills impossible to pass. 😎
I don't have a solution to states becoming tyrannical. Things that exist for other purposes eventually evolve to behave in a way that is self-serving. This is why political parties don't actually make political progress. All the power of the party eventually gets spent maintaining the power of the party. Any party that doesn't play that game falls out of power and disappears.
Same with unions. They now exist to maintain the union and any benefit they give to workers is only a side-effect of maintaining power.
This happens with species as well they exist to maintain their lineage. Only humans have gone through enough game theory to develop altruism as the next tier of evolutionary advantage. That step is still incomplete. Governments as a higher layer organism are still behaving like brutes. I am not sure how long it will take for states to evolve a sense of selflessness. Maybe a million years? Until then we need to iterate.
The trouble is that earth is only big enough for a few hundred governments, they become old and brutish and people suffer under their thumbs. To the stars!
Your premise is flawed: The state is people. People is the state. The state cannot and never will be anything other than a shared delusion of weak people who wish to use the monopoly of violence to secure what they wish. Any proposal of any state organizational methods will always fail if it involves humans.
Govern yourself, first and foremost. Then, you might be able to work with others in a consensual fashion.
