Let me conclude with a quote from none other than George Washington, a dead white male to be sure, but nevertheless the father of our country. It is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearsome master. It seems to me that Washington wasn't just admonishing us to be wary of government. He was juxtaposing civil society with political society.
Civil society is based on reason, eloquence, persuasion, which is to say voluntarism.
Political society, on the other hand, is based on force. Regrettably, no amount of government reinvention will change that fact.