Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.
Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you look outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature.
Humans are almost always lonely.
Beaurocracy destroys initiative.
The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.
The universe does not work by our rules