[anthropocene_x]

This was written in 1973

[aquila48]

That means a tribal strongman is the government.

It’s the way it’s been in tribes for as long as men have existed.

This thing called democracy with voters selecting their leaders is a fairly new invention and quite rare.

[Chicory]

I once belonged to a non-hierarchical group.

There were all the typical power-plays and leadership, bit since they weren’t offical, noone could do anything about them.

[marktwain]

They live an organized and peaceful life in the absence of formal government.

No, the tribes are almost constantly at war with one another.

Such has been noted by historians and modern writers since at least Kipling and Churchill.

Moral prescriptions are many and enforced by the Muslim clerics.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

The wisdom of the Founding Fathers was to limit government, and a modern echo of this may be found in the decision making study by Ostrom in the 2009 Nobel for Economics. Local trumps central, and small trumps big, with biggest and smallest both being poor choices. Who rages against limiting government? Those who would use it for their own ends. The government itself, and yet we have now multiple 20th century examples of big government collapsing via corruption and ineptitude.