The clearest evidence that state governments exist mostly to control people rather than to provide increasingly better life conditions.

When there is a national defense day, with organized mandatory procedures for introducing young citizens to the army… and this day gets extended to a week.

Yet the women’s rights day, the workers’ rights day, the families’ day, and so on, are but markings on a calendar. Associations around these themes do care, and organize gatherings and discussions — neat little events that don’t turn the world around. The days themselves become a simplified caricature of themselves.

State governments? They don’t care about you as a person. You’re only an obedient member of their society, if not a criminal. Did you sign up for it?