We don't like to be raped, pillaged and killed, so we react. We create rules and use of force to defend them. We have a right to protect ourselves, so people must be watched, structured, confined, eliminated. Rapidly or slowly, free people longing for peace fashion institutions that destroy freedom. Ultimately, we cannot have both.
Every nation ultimately descends into anarchy or marches into tyranny.
That's just the way it is. No way out. The only way we will ever enjoy the dual political blessings of freedom and peace is for each of us to become better people. To realize our political utopia, we must accept the challenges spirituality laid before humans long before America was a political thought. O'Toole was right, religion has been there all along.