Since today is #shutdown day…
People advocating for the abolishment of government, instead substituting cooperation, common ownership, pooling of resources, and common agreement on rules on how to use said resources…are actually advocating for a different form of government.
To me, “government” is an agreed-upon set of rules for a community, that is then delegated to a subset of the community to execute and enforce. Unless you’re talking about authoritarianism or occupation, “government” is made up of members of the group being governed. Government is not a “them”; government is “us”.
We can have good government or bad government, but for entirely practical reasons, any group of people living together will have to agree on common rules to get along; and when the group gets large enough, they will need to delegate the execution and enforcement of said rules to a smaller group of people and…well, now they have a government.
