True, absolutely true... Amen to that! People ought to not look the other way and we ought to have the power to say no. This also could be a problem of which comes first, the government doing this to people or just people doing this to people.

Which is certainly an entirely related discussion on the fundamental reality of humanity, good, evil, order, and chaos. Don't get me wrong, the US government is certainly evil. It has way too much power and control. Not to mention the kinds of things it uses to attain this power and control. Poor money, poor dietary advice, poor... Well, lots of things but I'm not broadened enough to tell you anything else! 😂

But I was just thinking about this other thought. Let's say we have a large mass of land like the US, we're truly free, and we don't have a federal government or perhaps any government. What's to stop some other people somewhere else with a government from trying to impose their government on that large area via violence and threat?

Maybe you'd have to have people organize together to either mitigate the threat, prevent the war, or contest such threat in warfare and combat. At that point you might want some money, other people, and some applicable resources in general. It starts to look like a government in some regard. Perhaps it's not strictly a government. At the very least, you might need an organization or at least something resembling an organization. Perhaps what's needed is the separation of military and state or perhaps the re-conceptualization of the government as military or something kind of like that. Though there might be dragons in the re-conceptualization department of things... 😬

In fairness, let's suppose something a little different. Let's say this outside power attempts to use war to enslave a large population and enforce government but they can't. Maybe it's because it's hard to enslave a large mass of land with a large population of free people who are scattered throughout the land. Especially if we're going to assume most of those people have common sense, are quite intelligent, and have persisted for generations with tried and true traditions. There is also the idea of guerrilla warfare... So perhaps you don't necessarily need that organization.