I would boast of my individuality as though it was a privilege were it not for the fact that all other people are similarly endowed. Yet, we are all different and in my case, I may celebrate my individuality more often than most. The only real entities are individual persons. How such an illusion came to pass is a story no less clever than The Wizard of Oz and a lot more factual. This politics does as if it had the legitimate authority.
Real government is self-government else there is no government whatsoever.
Without self-government, which is natural, government degenerates into a bunch of rackets. Without a modicum of self-rule, society contracts and humanity declines inasmuch as the world can support few people without the benefactions of social processes such as exchange and specialization. Certainly not the rulers who, come what may, expect to survive on the loot they can forage from whatever humanity is left. Although the contest between the individual victim and the political state that is out to conquer him seems most poignant and grossly unfair, I resist the urge to engage in reform activity. I am a naturalist when it comes to humanity and society.