Government is an Impediment to Human Evolution

[Originally published in the Front Range Voluntaryist, article by AnarchoJoe]

There are groups of people, in many parts of planet Earth, who call themselves ‘government’ and get away with massive crimes against those who are not a part of their group. Government is comprised of humans, as far as we know, like myself and maybe you too, except they use violence and threats of violence against us to get what they want.

These people are holding the rest of us back. All too often libertarians and anarcho-capitalists are faced with predictable Pavlovian responses to our humble suggestion that life could go on without the parasitic class of bureaucrats, Deputy Assistants to the Assistant Secretary’s Assistant, and other slime who make up government: “What about roads? Schools? And the Easter Bunny?” Instead of thinking about these services inefficiently provided at gunpoint by our overlords, we should re-frame the objection into pondering all that has been prevented from being developed by the voluntary and productive society. Where could we be right now? Would we even need roads? Schools? Or Churches? We will never know how much further into the outer and inner cosmos we could have explored without government preventing the rest of us from Evolving.

Governments around the world are most likely preventing technological advancements from being released that would send us to a fantastical future, and they are most definitely waging a war on mind altering plants which have proven health benefits in addition to being used throughout a variety of cultures in different areas and times since the beginning of human civilization for connecting with the divine.

In a voluntary society, absent an institution with a territorial monopoly on the use of force, the freed market would allocate resources to the most desired and yet not met demands of the masses. These could be technological and spiritual needs, but there’s no way of knowing (and that’s what’s most exciting about it!) If indeed technological and spiritual advancements were in demand, the market would provide. Interstellar space travel and communicating with our ancestors through ancient teacher plants like the Iboga root used by Central African tribe, or the incredible Ayahuasca brew consumed by the Amazonian Shaman, could all be possible to each and every one of us. Government is an unnecessary evil and a major obstacle to the next evolutionary step for our species.