Commentary
It matters how societies shape themselves. Despite this, few individuals debate or continuously review—let alone attempt to change—the form of governance under which they have been born.
They wait for their societies to evolve, mature, grow old, and collapse. Some societies collapse in their relative youth through mismanagement, undefeated threats, or other causes. Some linger into sclerotic old age.
Given that many societies worldwide are evolving to the ends of their natural cycles, there is now a great opportunity to review what we have and what we could achieve with consideration.
No one, it seems, can accurately attribute the origin of the concept that the best government is the least government. It is widely accepted as a concept, largely in the breach, because there have been few examples of successful and powerful societies that actually have had little or no government structure….