A Dangerous Delusion
There's a difference between adhering to the direction of someone you work for in respect to their skill and knowledge, and seeing someone as a master/ruler that you must obey under duress and threats of violence. That latter form of "authority" is completely erroneous and immoral. It's the ideology of a psychopath. Consider the word itself: AUTHOR-ity. What does an author do? They write. Subconsciously, you’re thinking "authority make things right; they are the WRITERS/RIGHTERS.” That’s how mind control works through words. And people never see it because they never stop to even break down a word or consider where it came from.
To perceive any person or group as "authority" is essentially to place them above the objective moral standard. It is nothing more than deification, placing them above human and believing them to have a god-like power to decide what morality is and isn't. It is believing them to have special "rights" to rule and command while the rest of us have a moral obligation to obey. Since most of us have fallen for this illusion we have convinced ourselves that we are "morally" obligated to give these people tribute, adoration, and servitude. Those who make the claim of "authority" do believe themselves to be our rightful gods, owners and masters who can make up "laws" – arbitrary decrees that have nothing to do with right and wrong and keep all of us under constant duress. If we don't abide by these "laws" (most of which are NOT in alignment with Natural Law), we are threatened with violence. And what is that called, without euphemising? SLAVERY.
This belief in "authority" has served as a massive hinderance to our Conscience. We are falsely justifying and condoning immoral behavior in the name of some perceived "greater good." It is the abdication of personal responsibility, giving your power away to someone else to protect you or nurture you. This is a child's view, not the view of a mature and evolved adult. We are responsible for our own Freedom, our own safety and security. When you falsely give that responsibility away you are basically saying to yourself and everyone else, "I am not a sovereign being, I am a subject to someone else's will."
If we the people have no "right" to steal from, assault, murder, coerce, rape, trespass upon, or maliciously deceive each other, then no one calling themselves "authority" has that right, either. There is no such thing as "authority" vested in any amount of human beings to rule, therefore ALL government is immoral and illegitimate. The belief in "government" is nothing more than a dogmatic religious belief, and it's the most dangerous one. It is the relinquishing of personal responsibility to an imagined higher power. It has rituals, dogma, commandments, punishments for "sin" and disobedience, and savior figures. That's why they tell you to "have faith in the system." It's all just a religion – a mind-control cult that is based entirely in coercion and violence. To believe in or condone these things IS to believe in and condone slavery whether or not you are conscious of the fact.
We are naturally and inherently Sovereign Beings, not slaves. To be sovereign is to be above rulership, a free being. That's what it means and what it has always meant. You cannot express your sovereignty under anyone's rule. You cannot have Freedom and Government at the same time. You have to get out of your mind the idea that "government" is people coming together in mutual consent to plan, organize and manage community infrastructure. That's not government, that's Voluntary Cooperation. That's True Anarchy. This idea that government's purpose is to protect Freedom and Rights is just that – an idea. It's a construct of the mind, a belief system. It has never actually served that purpose because it's not meant to serve that purpose. That responsibility belongs to each and every human being. We're here to experience, to grow, to learn and evolve, not to be stagnant under illusions of "authority."
Kingship of the ancient past is the "Old World Order." It was "authority" vested in one being. Government is the "New World Order," or "authority" vested in few. Ultimately, nothing has really changed between these two periods of time. We've just euphemized it differently. It's still rulership. Government is and always has been a control system of covert rulership / covert slavery. You cannot have morally legitimate government because you cannot have morally legitimate slavery.
A World Without "Government"
"but... who would build the roads?"
People would, just as they always have, under Natural Law. Government doesn't make anything function, people do. Without the belief in "authority," there would be more cooperation and more progress. This idea that everything would collapse into chaos because "government" wasn't there to manage everything is a childish delusion. It's time to grow up and evolve out of our childhood where we think we need a proxy mommy and daddy to take care of us and protect us. We can handle it just fine on our own in Sovereignty.
And instead of being forced to pay taxes (legalized extortion), having no control over where that money is going, we would have voluntary contributions to projects and necessities to keep our communities functioning. Taxation isn't necessary, it's theft.
"Taxation isn't theft! People willingly pay their taxes!"
That may be so for many people, and usually under the illusion that the money is being used honestly and appropriately. But what happens to the individual who decides they don't want to pay anymore? They get threatened, robbed and assaulted by thugs in uniforms, and thrown in a cage for years. If a mafia thug tells you to give them money every year for "your own good," would you say that arrangement is voluntary? Of course not. The difference between a mafia and "government" comes down to only one thing: one of them you perceive as violent thugs and the other as "authority." You feel no moral obligation to a mafia, but you do to "authority." It's just a belief.
If you still think taxation is legitimate and not theft, consider this:
Do you own your own body? Yes. And since you own your body, you also own your skills, therefore you own your labor. And if you own your labor then you absolutely own the product of that labor. Since no one else owns your body, they cannot rightfully demand any arbitrarily decided percentage of the product of that labor to distribute as they see fit. That's theft. Even if a portion of that money is going towards public welfare programs, it's still theft. And since you are put under duress and coercion to pay that percentage every year by thugs calling themselves "authority," that's slavery. People will always be willing to contribute to things that they believe in. There will always be voluntary charity. There is no justification for theft no matter what someone claims the "greater good" is.
Most human beings – when the belief in "government" and "authority" is abandoned – will no longer hold anyone above the objective moral standard and therefore will no longer tolerate violence. They will rightfully take responsibility for their own defense instead of waiting on "authority" to show up when it's too late. Bad people will even reduce their wrong behavior; not because they are suddenly moral beings but out of self-preservation, knowing that they won't be able to get away with as much criminal behavior if the majority of people no longer depend on and believe in "authority" and "government" for protection (which more often protect the criminals over the innocents).
When human beings have awakened to and embraced their Sovereignty, and therefore understand and embrace their Response-Ability for protecting their own lives and freedom, the chance for suffering and chaos is reduced. There will always be conflicts and real crime (not victimless "crime" based on arbitrary and immoral "laws"), but the belief in the myth of "authority" would no longer be there to get in the way of Conscience or to justify that behavior. When most of society holds EVERYONE to the objective standard of Morality (Natural Law), that society becomes and remains Free, and Order emerges. No "government" has ever ensured that, nor will it ever, because that has never been its purpose.