The problem is you.
The government is not a god with special powers. Neither is it even an entity. It exists on the consent of those who make it. There is a mirror here with Capitalism. We sell ourselves into bondage. Two power structures established to make us ill and sell us the cure. All the while forgetting that no one rules if no one obeys.
The market is an amazing thing. It offers powerful incentive to better our lives as a whole society. But power structures serve us nothing. They serve only groups at the expense of other groups. There is no action of hierarchy which creates wealth or innovation that could not have been created through fully voluntary bargaining, as can only exist when there is equal leverage in negotiating contract. Power structures only serve those with the power.
Yet we do not see this fairness, established for our own betterment according our own desires. For we fall into a trap. Somewhere along the line we succumb to the lie that selling our freedom will bring us more. As if our volition and our labor are stock or parts on an assembly line.
Government and Capitalism are not diseases. They are symptoms.
It is the conglomeration of our choices and the failures we have made along the way which, unfortunately, have created a feed-back-loop of incentive towards the same failing choices. We have created a society, through our own choices, in which the pressure is powerful to believe that one must sell their freedom in-order to survive.
It is well known that selling one’s self into indentured servitude has become illegal. One of many cases of government trying to fix a problem it’s inherently tied up in. It’s something that used to be a defining trait of our economy, at least by their standards of what it is. When we embrace it’s full meaning, by any standard examined on it’s practical application, we see that our economy is still very much defined by indentured servitude.
I contend that freedom is the source of a people’s innovation. Up to and no further than the point at which we use our freedom to give it up. And this, at it’s root, is the disease. A sort of masochism. The idea that a laborer should trade their work for a wage, rather than for equity in his workplace, is fundamentally flawed. And, in a truly free market, it becomes apparent that it’s just plain stupid. However, in a society where this is has already been established as the norm, it certainly becomes difficult for the individual to resist.
This same mass hysteria is the mother of, not only Capitalism, but Statism as well. For, besides the differing distributions of natural resources in geographic areas, there is no inherent reason that arms should become so concentrated to a select few. Not only does government exist only on the consent of government workers; the consent of the rest of society is also vital to the continued health of the State. This is why the most powerful and ruthless governments are founded, not only on laws and their enforcement, but on propaganda as well.
But that’s all it is, really. Propaganda.
The State has flourished because the consent exists. People say to themselves that government is necessary. Altogether ignoring that the problems which government claims to alleviate are, most often, the result of a common denominator and, at any other time, even a direct result of government itself.
Power structures claim to bring order. But they are merely a different manifestation of disorder. Taking this into account, we can see that throughout human history, almost consistently across time and land mass, the human race has been in a perpetual state of civil war. At it’s root, this is a war of ideas and beliefs but it translates into very real consequences of violence, subordination and a variety of suffering.
Do not try to change the system. Change ideas and the system will change itself.