The cause of government is the failure of individualism to out-compete the various paths to government. If individualism is a viable and competitive alternative to government, we should be able to inventory reality and history to get a rough quantitative comparison of how competitive it is by counting instances of government and individualism. It doesn't appear to be quantitatively competitive by any interpretation. One must conclude that there is no rational reason to assert that it will out-compete government in the future.
Q.E.D.
It depends, there are 2 paths to government:
The 2nd one will become eliminated as technology will make humans more self-sufficient. Only the first one has to be fixed. Perhaps genetic engineering? Not that I am a fan of interfering with nature, and natural paths of evolution, but just looking at other animals, it seems like humans are the cancer here, because their lust of power is just overwhelmingly disproportionate, and it's feasting on our souls.
That was the point of my response. Individualism needs to acquire a quality it hasn't had before. Diving into the details of the why/what/how specifics of that quality is the work needed to put individualism into a form useful for the coming war with government.
It sure does, because the survival instincts rule humans. Everyone would sell their soul for survival. So I don't blame people for doing what they do in order to survive.
However with more technology and progress, survival will become secondary, and perhaps living well will be the purpose. And then people will realize that living by their own goals is more preferable than living by others standards.
I have the concern that observations along that line amount to almost a mathematical proof of engineered disaster. Incumbent power + knowledge of technology's liberating effect for the masses to independently ascend Maslow's pyramid = engineered disaster to suppress and counter the threat.
There is also a larger concern. The technology, which is proportionally under the stewardship of the most powerful, could be being pushed toward a finish line of sorts - the replacement point where machines are more efficient slaves than a large segment of humanity. I do not have trust for a class that creates or profits from enslavement to make the moral decision to retain obsolete slaves.
I admit a degree of despair when I look at social media and see society fighting over places in line for this ride.
That is a very dystopic worldview which has never been true in history. The amount of power the rulers have is only as much as many humans they can control. And with new innovation, it becomes harder and harder.
If they hadn't institutionalized education in the 1800 - early 1900's, there would be no government by today. They are losing power, and losing it fast, because a government is an obsolete structure.
The market always wins in the long run, and if a chaos erupts, they lose all their power. Right now all their power is in the media and school system, if that falls, all dominoes fall.
It's like Hitler in the bunker trying to plan the future of Germany, as he was totally delusional, haven't realized that most Germany was occupied at this point and Berlin was falling quickly.
It's this arrogance and delusion that these elites have, even if they are cornered and all their powers are falling away, they still think they can turn it around somehow to be the winners.
I don't believe they can next time.