Mark Gober - Do We Need Government

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 19:56:49 +0000

⁣It’s “Upside Down” thinking that life can’t exist without Government
With Mark Gober, author of the “Upside Down” book series
https://www.markgober.com/

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Over more than half a decade, Freedom Hub has platformed some fantastic libertarians. (Indeed, cohost Frohman is a former associate director at the libertarian Cato Institute.) But Mr. Gober’s vision of life existing without the government stems from his unique niche as an award-winning science writer, where he has exposed the plethora of weak claims behind almost every facet of human thinking. These relate to where we live, how we heal, and the very nature of consciousness itself. The great question around this week’s topic entails “politics”, stemming from the Greek root “poli”, the community, and how the community “organizes itself”…

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…Such organization must account for human nature, which Hobbes described centuries ago as “nasty, brutish and short.” Locke updated that depressing presupposition to limit government to mere protection against deprivation of our property rights in our lives and how we “homestead” wild resources for the benefit of ourselves and society. Leonard Read said in the 1960s that we should be able to do “anything that’s peaceful”. The Founders
thought their Constitution would respect the law of nature and the eventual modernization (and complication) of society.

But has the Constitution limited government to respecting the nature of things? Mr. Gober’s awakening during the COVID tyranny motivated him to use his scientific prowess to come up with a modern idea for governance that respected what he’d learned about nature - and what we don’t know about it. Perhaps “government” is inherently contradictory to our own nature -
indeed, any amount of govt risks slavery and a ruination of our plan with God to make a heaven of Earth. But without some sort of “contract” with society, don’t we risk a chaotic life - one that is nasty, brutish and short?