Anarchy: Thank God It Isn't Here To Stay!

Government cannot be made to obey any law or constitution. Government interprets and enforces the laws, so in the matter of any law they will simply interpret and enforce the it in whatever way best suits them, and resolve disputes in whatever way enhances their power, security and income. Whether a government contains some "elected" people or not makes no difference in this regard.

Since you live with a government that is a lawless actor, you live in a state of anarchy- that is, a state of lawlessness and disorder- in relationship to your government. No law effectively governs government, and they can and do employ any level of force with you that they wish at any time. Any dispute you have with regard to their use of force will be arbitrated by them. If this is not anarchy, what is? How is this any different that dealing with organized crime? Exactly how am I supposed to be impressed that these lawless actors have small components who are "elected" to their roles as lawless actors? Any mob can hold a vote: gang rape is democracy.

Now, their functions are easier and less costly to themselves when force doesn't need to be employed, so various measures are taken to reduce it's use, propaganda being foremost: but costs of maintaining themselves as lawless actors, whether by using force or employing propaganda, are extracted by them, from you. This is also identical to how we would stand in relation to a society ruled by an armed gang.

Government is not the antidote to anarchy- it is the highest, or should I say lowest, embodiment of anarchy, in the sense that government is anarchy obscured as legitimate order and security. Abolishing government as "claim to the ultimate arbitration of disputes and a legitimate monopoly on the use of force in a specific geographical area" opens the door to a new definition of government as "any way of organizing ourselves, provided it is always voluntary." In the current state of evolution, the free market is the most powerful way we organize ourselves, but by no means the only one. Family, religious institutions, private schools and clubs, and so forth also provide organization.

When government as coercive organization is ended, these voluntary ways of governing and organizing ourselves can fully develop and thrive- and along with them, each individual. Since free markets address the important issue of allocating scarce resources, we can anticipate that a stateless society would develop strongly in that area, but it is also exciting to speculate on ways in which non-market institutions might develop in the absence of a state.