Government is always mess.
Because the state opposes itself to the people. We live under a constitution where we are supposed to be governed by ourselves.
Because the state always creates itself as a business in competition with all the other businesses. And it wins because it’s the biggest one of the bunch.
The Taoist said of the state that it should be as anonymous and as unobtrusive as possible.
- Alan Watts from his Essential Lectures on the Tao of Philosophy.
