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<<However, the more the people learn to support each other, and the more people love liberty, the less chance a tyrant has of taking hold.>> Isn't the only way to stand to a tyrant and his thugs to create a form of organization which is that of a proto-government?

To be sure I no longer have very much trust in western governments. 9/11 has taught me that they can't be trusted.
However I don't believe that anarchy is the solution to our problems.
In the last few years alone there are quite a few examples for warlords or rather violent gangs having taken over the minute the state had broken down.
This happened in Iraq right after George W Bush declared "Mission Accomplished". There was a giant wave of lootings, rape, kidnapping and extortion until finally sectarian militias took over and a weak puppet government was sponsored by the Americans.
In Libya the whole country has broken up and every part is under the thumb of  a different violent war lord and their militia gang.
I believe the best option would be a decentralized system of small entities of  direct democracies, small enough everyone's voice can be heard and his or opinion taken in account should he or she choose to speak out. In these small entities the people would give themselves laws and rules under which they want to live.
Because I for my account do not want to live in a place where there are no rules. For instance I would feel extremely uncomfortable and even threatened if a whole bunch of men around me would decide to run around naked all day. Now if those naked men were confined during their nudity exploits only to a certain part of the beach, I could live with it, since I could avoid that beach. But this would mean the community would set such a rule, supported by the majority of its members and that would be a kind of government function.

Without govern-cement, wouldn't warlords take over?

The answer has always been, yes.
There have always been people who are unscrupulous, and some of these people are bigger, stronger, better armed or more cunning.  And these people see that taking something is easier than creating it themselves.

However, this was dependent upon a lot of facts that no longer exist.

It used to be cars were a luxury for only the rich.  And then Ford came along and built them for the farmers, and now, today, we could build a car for everyone in america and renew them once ever five years.  So, if we wanted to, we could make cars so ubiquitous that there would be no point in stealing one.

The same with food.  We have so much that all the potential thieves could line up for handouts, and we could bury them.  (Yes, america throws away half of the food we grow.)

An armored and weaponed knight was the equivalent fighting power as a town of serfs.  One knight could/did literally kill the entire village.  But this was because of so much disparity in fire power.  A strong, well fed person who trained with weapons daily, vs a not-so-well-fed people without any training or desire to kill others.  Now, everyone in america has a gun; the great equalizer.

The way a mob runs a city is they all gang up on a lone shop keeper and force him to buckle.  Then they use that to leverage over another and another.  If it was all the shop keepers vs all the mob, the shop keepers will win based on shear numbers.  With real community watch apps coming into being, a lone shop keeper can quickly get all of his friends to come to his aid.

Now, it is just a matter of training people out of their learned helplessness.  We have a govern-cement that insists that we go unarmed, and to not defend ourselves.  This is a mental war.

So, we have gotten to a place where our manufacturing exceeds desire, that the personal force field is pretty much leveled, and where communications have made it so that the community can quickly defend itself.

The answer today, to the question put forth is, Maybe.
Soon the answer will be No.  There will be no force done, by govern-cement or otherwise, that won't be stopped by the majority of people that just want to live and let live.

Governments form like planets and solar systems and star clusters and galactic superclusters do.  You can start out with a fairly uniform distribution of power among a governmentless group of people and over time small groups will pull together to compete against bigger groups to compete with barons and dukes and counts and maharajahs and kings and emperors in bigger and bigger clusters until One World Government emerges or a society collapse restarts the process all over again.

It may be theoretically possible for something else to work, but history has shown that it never does.  If pigs had wings, however, I agree they might fly.

I've recently participated in a long (and apparently fruitless) discussion with @profitgenerator about the morality of government (see the comments below his article: [**"Majority is always right!"**](https://steemit.com/philosophy/@profitgenerator/majority-is-always-right#@profitgenerator/re-creatr-re-profitgenerator-re-creatr-re-profitgenerator-re-creatr-re-profitgenerator-majority-is-always-right-20170212t080840900z)

I appreciate your article because I feel it's always good to raise the question, and not simply "make the assumption." I've come to believe that, particularly with newly developing distributed organizational and financial tools built on blockchains, the old saw "Give peace a chance" may have a real chance... 😄😇😄
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Thanks for the article! You've answered the question that's troubled me for a long time.

Such a great point that people need to face their fears to be able to understand they can live without governments and that we need a cultural change. Well said!

By the way, it would be awesome if you ever write an article on how science and space exploration may be organized without State.