Sadly, IMHO anarchy leads to might makes right. Simply a more chaotic form of violence against the citizenry. Are these two our only choice? Megalomaniac power hungry psychopaths vs. Mad Max? I would hope not.

@toronto_Georgia
Sadly the exact opposite is true. Only governments wage war against their own people and others. Including the allegedly "free and democratic" nations of the West.
NONE of this is possible without the myth that anyone has the Right to Rule over another.

" Among all the democide estimates appearing on this website, and in the table on the lower right, some have been revised upward. I have changed that for Mao's famine, 1958-1962, from zero to 38,000,000. And thus I have had to change the overall democide for the PRC (1928-1987) from 38,702,000 to 76,702,000. Details here.
I have changed my estimate for colonial democide from 870,000 to an additional 50,000,000. Details here.

Thus, the new world total: old total 1900-1999 = 174,000,000. New World total = 174,000,000 + 38,000,000 (new for China) + 50,000,000 (new for Colonies) = 262,000,000.

Just to give perspective on this incredible murder by government, if all these bodies were laid head to toe, with the average height being 5', then they would circle the earth ten times. Also, this democide murdered 6 times more people than died in combat in all the foreign and internal wars of the century. Finally, given popular estimates of the dead in a major nuclear war, this total democide is as though such a war did occur, but with its dead spread over a century...."

[hawaii.edu]

@Heresiarch Doesn't matter how you cut it. Individuals need to form groups against the psychopaths that have always existed. Eventually defense systems are built, followed shortly by "kings", etc. As long as man has existed this has been the case. Human nature always includes the gentle and the aggressive.

@toronto_Georgia That's also not correct. Up until a couple hundred years ago, there were still places on Earth men and women could migrate to, out of reach of petty and grand tyrants for the rest of their days.
The so-called "Dark Ages" after the fall of the Roman Empire birthed the greatest period of individual prosperity Europeans had experienced in a millennia. People Built communities, sustained themselves, engaged in trade and were neither taxed by (stolen from) or under the heel of any grand ruler.
Conflicts began small, and remained so until they were subjugated by those who assert that they had a right to rule over others.

@Heresiarch Interesting website and hypothesis. Would be truly remarkable if the elites forming the WEF/NWO cabal would actually pay attention to his studies.

"POWER KILLS* sums up Rummel's research on violence and reaffirms and extends his earlier work. In theory and fact, democracies do not (or virtually never) make war on each other; the more democratic two regimes, the less likely violence between them; the more democratic a regime, the less its overall foreign violence; and the more democratic a regime, the less its genocide and mass murder (which in this century has killed about four times the battle dead of all its foreign and domestic wars). "

• R.J. Rummel's book published in 1997.