Throughout human history different types of Governments have existed, and there has been a trend of centralization and growth of power, but there has been an inflection point roughly starting with the Renaissance and coming out at the Age of Enlightenment in the 18th century.

Humans before the invention of agriculture lived in small tribes, whom were mostly composed of a few families, where everyone knew eachother well, and it was a simple free society that lived a harmonious lifestyle. But after agriculture was invented, government was born, because you needed to protect your crops from thieves and since food was plenty, people could choose different professions (other than hunter-gatherer) and the specialization of labor created a hierarchy with a landlord at the top, who needed to collect taxes in order to maintain this system.

Then more landlords came together and monarchy was born. And you know the story from here. After government got unleashed, humans simply didn't matter anymore. They were either cannon fodders or tax cattle. Collectivism was rising and power got more and more centralized. But after the Age of Enlightenment something changed, human rights started to became a priority, and democracy was born.

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REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY

Now of course democracy is not perfect, but it's 1 step in the right direction, but we could already see the lust for power of the tyrants in the 20th century. They could not tolerate democracy, they wanted all the power, but since the humans were not as dumb anymore as in the middle ages to just accept serfdom as granted, they had to trick people into giving them power, because humans were a bit smarter now than before.

So the lust for power of the Communists and Nazis, became evident, and since they just could not grab the power so easily anymore as with a monarchy, they had to trick people into giving them power by basing their narrative on hatred of the rich or anti-semitism. And people got duped into this. But since most people were smart enough to feel that something is really wrong, they had to have "totalitarian" control, in order to silence dissent.

So a monarchy could last hundreds of years without any major dissent, but after people tasted some freedoms under democracy, the genie was out of the bottle. So Hitler and Stalin had to exert massive oppression in order to keep their powers, because they wanted to rule like kings, but the population was much harder to manage at this point, so they ruled through terror by putting dissenters in concentration camps.

As people taste more and more freedom, they don't want to be slaves anymore. But as more and more freedom spreads in society, the authoritarian control freaks get more and more nervous to grab more and more power.

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DIRECT DEMOCRACY

The next step is direct democracy. There is no way we avoid this. This must happen. And yes a democracy is still rule through coercion, but it's the 2nd step that is needed towards a libertarian society. So first you transition from monarchy -> representative democracy. Which would be the equivalent of an oligarchy, and now it's time for direct democracy.

Let's not forget that in Nazi Germany only about 10% of the population were hardcore Nazis, and they won the election democratically. So how did they fooled 50%+1 of the population?

Most people are not bad people, they are either naive or are threatened. The Nazis got into power by relying on the economic disasters and poverty to push their hateful ideology, and since people had little to lose, they went along with it. They also threatened and blackmailed newspapers with their paramilitary forces (this is why anonymity is important in journalism btw). And last but not least they did the Reichstag fires false flag and blamed it on terrorists, sounds familiar?

And still they got only 44% of the vote, not even the 50%+1 that would be considered normal. And most people didn't even go to vote.

This is the danger of representative democracy, because you already have a violent state, that can be captured by Nazis with just 44% of the vote, which may only represent 10% of the population and a few more gullible people.

This is why direct democracy is imperative, because if direct democracy is implemented, Nazis will never have power again, because if the vote is online, probably secured by some blockchain, most people will vote, and they will be outvoted 9 to 1.

In fact a decentralized/anonymous journalism and social media that can't be blackmailed, will actually fight the Nazis before they get even 0.01% of the population. So a censorship/blackmail free journalism, and freedom of speech is very very important to keep the population informed and to keep the oppressors out.

Freedom of speech can stop tyranny, long before they even get 1% of the population, and this goes for all kind of oppressors.

I would also say that a direct democracy would need a higher approval threshold, instead of 50%+1, it should be minimum 75%, just to make sure that individual rights are violated less times.

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ANARCHY

The last step to achieve a real voluntary society is to transition from direct democracy to individualism, and rediscover that the individual is the core unit of society, and that the individual is sacred. A direct democracy can help keep the authoritarians out, but people still need to push for more freedom in order to make the transition.

It could be done by gradually increasing the approval threshold from 75%, to 100%. Or by just abandoning the whole idea, since after we will have a fully functioning free market, nobody will want a government anymore.

Freedom is wonderful, as said above, after people just get a taste of it, they will never want to be slaves again. So together with a free market and a freedom of speech protected communication system, people will quickly realize that even the mob-rule is not good, and then we will have a true free society.

So the transition is the following:

INDIVIDUAL -> FAMILY -> TRIBE -> MONARCHY -> REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY -> DIRECT DEMOCRACY -> ANARCHY = INDIVIDUAL

It takes tens of thousands of years for humanity to transition, but after it's completed it will bring humanity to the next level, and then we can say to ourselves that we are a worthy species that deserve to live on this planet.

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