In an ideal society government would not exist. We would not need it. I'm done with all the talk about fixing government. Fix the people that still need to be governed. We all need to focus on self sustainability. We should grow our own food, produce our own electricity, fuels, etc. Even if that is impossible for one individual to do, which it damn near is, we need to create small comminuties that are based not on an economy or a government but on everybody doing their own share, being good people because that is what they want to do, not because they fear the punishment of a "god" or of the law. The law does not govern my actions because my own moral code does. If everyone else got on that page than maybe we could eventually do away with armies, weapons and even the police. (On a side note i am a strong supporter of the notion that guns dont kill people, people kill people. As i am a supporter of the second ammendment) Onto the second amendment, it exists because their are bad people in this world. We should not need a government, but we do, We should not need police, but we do. We should all just develop good morals, but we cant.
I have a dream of running off with everyone I know and making a little community in the middle of nowhere and just avoid all the world and their fucked up laws and fucked up worries. But the impossibility and impractability of this discourages me. Imagine ignoring the worlds problems, economic recession: fuck it, war: fuck it. You get the idea. Once we can all realize that our one goal on this planet is just to live for our 100 or so years and maybe reproduce than we will actually be able to help each other.
My final point: Today on this planet we have the manpower, resources, and technology for every living body on this earth to go to bed well fed and comfortable. That may be all though, no living in excess here, but you would be able to go to bed knowing there is world peace. This is not possible because of 2 things. 1 is greed, people are too greedy, they want to live in excess while others live in poverty, they are not comfortable in the middle. The second reason is that if everyone were well fed than EVERYONE would want to reproduce, and that just isn't feasible in a world that already has widespread poverty. We would need to limit who has kids and who hasnt, and that isnt a right that people will give up easily, even if it would end world hunger, and you know what I call that: GREED.