But when referring to even the recent past, we find that government is by far history's greatest peril. I can point to a hundred and fifty million political dead this century alone. You can point to a hypothesis about confusion over jurisdiction in the case of a burglary. There's conjecture about ancient Iceland and more conjecture about the American West, but nothing all that convincing, even to me. All States nova.
All tribes disperse.
There is no historical precedent for a permanent State, or a stable one. Of the extant States today, the exceedingly young USA may be the oldest, which says nothing good about the advance of the science of statism. When States nova, which they invariably do, they usually do a very bloody job of it. I've never seen a war. I've never seen a mass grave.