Exactly. Corporations are created and defended by the political apparatus that calls itself "the state".

Governments are created by arseholes who assert the right (with guns) to define the privileges and dole out licenses to exercise the same.

Just another bunch of racketeers.

The solution is to become ungovernable. This nearly happened at the time of the declaration of independence, but then some arseholes formed a constitution which people fell for, hook, line and sinker.

Viz. a newly legitimated political class.

There's no we in "we didn't buy..."

Those who refused to accept "Befehl ist Befehl" weren't "we". They were the dominant political elite from the victor's side. No we about it.

This was never the case, even when the ink on the declaration of independence was still wet.

How many of "the people" were involved in these decisions?

...let alone packets.

I was born on the great antipodean continent, I live there also. I don't, however, consider myself Australian. Being an Australian implies membership of a body-politic, which implies supplicating to politicians and their sycophants. I don't do that.

already knows about the Jevons' paradox.

Live it up. Use it all liberally before some horde of misers ration it sparingly.

As it happens, the fucks were on VHS.

is plenty after all.

I'll sign up to this program.

You also may not have heard of DME, which can be created over a catalyst from cellulosic derived syngas.

By "declaring war" on entities which do not exhibit the traits of Westphalian sovereignty, the political class has tacitly undermined their claim of territorial integrity.

So a wife-beater is benevolent, so long as he brings home the bacon and occasionally shows up at the door with flowers?

I think you'll find that the US Constitution purports to _prohibit_ extrajudicial action regardless of the allegiance of the individual. The fourth amendment, even if construed to only cover "The People", when combined with the tenth amendment would imply that only state-actors or individuals are able to exercise extra-judicial power.