Never said people want to take it down.
It exists because people believe it is necessary. They obey it because they believe there is no way civilization could exist without it. Thomas Hobbes fooled them all.
They fear what would happen in its absence.
Wouldn't you say the government how you have it now is the result of evolution of previous experiments?
Men are social enemies. They need hiarchy.
Jordan Peterson. Lobsters.
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Men need hierarchies based on merit, knowledge, wisdom, skill...
The only ones who need hierarchies based on violence and threat thereof are tyrants, criminals and slave owners.
need =/= reality
So?
You said men need hierarchies.
Yes. There are different ones.
Some good, some violent.
Which do you prefer?
Remember that except for government and the mafia most hierarchies by far are not based on violence...
The norm are voluntary hierarchies.
Hierarchies based on violence are the exception in our lives.
Non violent.
but how do you govern men who live for altruism and the collective? They are not they capable of it themselves.
Strong selfish leaders emerge. And they are needed.