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Go get a plane ticket to Somalia.

The root of evil is state power

Da fuck?! I think the root of evil is people doing fucking evil things. You would not be communicating on the Internet, using the software you are using, without a "State power." The type of scale required to make the types of technology we have (for better and for worse) requires States.

States do have a monopoly on violence. This isn't a bad thing in itself so long as the State is dependent on the approval of a large number of people (selectorate theory; see The Dictator's Handbook by Mesquita and Smith) and the State preserves real freedom of speech and disagreement (difficult to achieve).

I do believe smaller states are better. I'm fine with technology progressing more slowly if the EU was gone, and the South had won and kept America split, if the USSR had meaningfully dissolved and if China wasn't an empire. It's very difficult to prevent the creation of larger States or governing confederations; it follows the natural order of nature to create larger systems within a hierarchy.

You want to live in a place with little protection; the wild west. You're fucking insane dude and I don't think you have any idea what that's like. Go live in Somalia or India for an idea. You wouldn't survive a fucking month with your brain dead takes.