Well, how about this? Do you not fear the mob? (not organized crime, we can get to that) Perhaps you mean the un-swayable mentality when desperate folks will stop at nothing to survive? No. Not even close. It's where two or more are gathered. The right of assembly. It is not even a right, it is an ability that is impossible to control without strict measures that can feed it. Throw in food shortage from fuel shortage it cannot be controlled without the unthinkable.
Not only that, if we may go to pre-dawn in the African plains, even today, 2 are better than 1. It is necessary for survival, this assembly; to cooperate with pre- and non-verbal comms. The 6th sense of survival is the mob in us.
Sparta, Rome, London have all feared the mob. I can think about history entire, as this at it's core. So, the limited self govt we are trying in Western non-tribal culture is only the latest attempt. We must constantly solve this built in pair of problems with us.
In the research, Cooperation and Competition are only just now being seen as not mutually exclusive. The concept of Altuism is being proved in the latest socio-game-math to make a bigger pie. We have to give. It is the only way. (Nashian Game Theory)
You can think what you may about the increase in Food Stamps promotion in the USA. (It's OK, ya'll. Don't feel the stigma.) The mob must be feed. That much we do know and that's how far we advanced, imo. Heath care is not a Right, OK? But the 6th sense demands it. Advanced theory approves it's necessity.
If I may simply postulate, govts don't make the need for mob mentality. Mob mentaility makes the need for governance. We are, I think, only as close to the edge of disaster, as our crowd control. We can't just kill them all. That's been tried.
