Because for many profit is not everything, the lust for power and religion can also be a great motivator. Some people just want to have slaves or impose on others how to live. And if they fight the government now, those private security providers will be a lesser challenge.
How easy is it to subdue an urban, armed population? The most powerful govt the world has ever seen can't seem to do it effectively in Iraq, for example.
No doubt there are always going to be people lusting for power, but the only way that it works now is because people have been trained over centuries, particularly through the church and the public school system to accept the idea of government. It needs to be indoctrinated in for a majority to accept it. Without that indoctrination being present
Iraq is a bad example, since they are not free. But I agree an armed population is a deterrent against foreign invasion. But I wasn't talking about foreign invasion. Armed population is no defense against religion, mobs, and the tyranny of the community. Many private schools are worse than public ones. They invade the privacy of children, and restrict their freedom, teach them religious concepts. And by the time they grow up, it will be too late.
Religion is mostly toothless these days. The only real time they become an issue at large is when the state starts pandering to them. Indoctrination of kids is a problem but it is smoothing out over time. Indoctrination of kids to government is a much larger problem than religious indoctrination and results in significantly worse results overall.
Mobs? There are mobs now, there will be mobs in a free society. Although, I think people's individual security will be improved when it's a free market. Most private schools, at least here in Australia, are just pseudo-public schools. They are better but still have to follow the same basic curriculum set by government. I went to a religious private school and have known others that have been and haven't heard of anything as bad as you seem to be implying.
I'm atheist now incidentally, the religious stuff lost it's hold in my early-mid teens.
Government took longer, I was into my 30's before that finally lost it's hold on me. Unfortunately, I don't have the choice to ignore it the way I do religion. Although I have to say I really want to. When you realise they don't have the rights they claim, it's hard to to take it seriously when they come at you with their demands. The desire to shove their bullshit right back down their throats is strong, tempered only by the fact that I know they have the guns and the power and authority to make my life miserable if I don't do what they say. And that's simply because people still believe the myth. Otherwise, I wouldn't be concerned. Kind of like being in the ancient world and knowing you might be sacrificed to the gods if you don't do what the Pharoah says. It's all nonsense, of course, but what are you going to do? You don't want to end up on the sacrificial altar.
I have serious doubts as to whether a modern, educated population would accept a new government after not having one at all.
Since the final phase of communism is anarchy, this what communists thought, that statelessness requires educated population. And thats how they justified authoritarianism and things like the cultural revolution (as a transition to the ultimate phase).
Some communists thought the final stage was anarchy. I think those at the top probably knew better and it was basically just propaganda to placate the masses. And I don't think you can call the communist countries that well educated. Their schools are worse than ours.
I don't advocate authoritarianism to get to my goal, nor do most anarchists. In fact it's the complete opposite. I don't advocate teaching kids a certain curriculum either. I am for free market competition in education.
i did not say that i did not want freedom, just that i don't value it, because i have it. myrkul's quote states that, freedom only have value when you don't have it.
