If people are waiting for constitutions, elections, or other documents and rituals to make government into something that actually serves and protects the people, stop waiting. It won’t ever happen. “Government” has always been the enemy of decent people, and playing the games engineered and controlled by sociopaths will never result in freedom and justice. “Politics” and “democracy” are designed only to legitimize authoritarian domination and give the false appearance that the people are in charge. Despite all the mythology and rhetoric that is used to try to make ruling classes look proper and necessary, the state is, and has always been, the enemy of the people. Trying to elect politicians who will serve the people is the equivalent of a slave trying to get purchased by a kinder master. Even if he succeeds, he still fails. He is still a slave whose time and energy are the property of someone else. Likewise, even if the people create a relatively benevolent ruling class (“government”), it is still their master, will still steal the fruits of their labor, and will still forcibly dominate and control them. The best that “government” can ever be is a relatively gentle abuser, a somewhat less greedy thief, a moderately permissive slavemaster. Only voluntaryism and a stateless society allow for actual freedom, actual equality, actual justice, actual civilization.
Sooner or later, that is what humanity will have. When enough people fully understand and embrace the concepts of self-ownership and non-aggression, and realize that those concepts completely rule out the possibility of a legitimate ruling class, “government” will become a fading memory, an old and irrational superstition, like worshiping volcanos and offering human sacrifices to mythical gods. When human beings can fully embrace the self-evident concept of “I own me and you own you,” and let go of the centuries of anti-human authoritarian mythology, then — and only then — will humanity find its way out of the centuries-old cycle of suffering and injustice.
