Doug Casey on the nation-state

My view is that the institution of the state itself is a bad thing.  It’s not a question of getting the right people into the government; the institution itself is hopelessly flawed and necessarily corrupts the people that compose it, as well as the people it rules.  This statement invariably shocks people, who believe that government is both a necessary and permanent part of the cosmic firmament. 

The problem is that government is based on coercion, and it is, at a minimum, suboptimal to base a social structure on institutionalized coercion.

~ Doug Casey, "End of the Nation-State," International Man, December 7, 2023