# Deleting The State: Fear, Power, and Political Authority

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Podcast: [Independent Conversations](https://stenobird.com/podcast/independent-conversations-5447971)
Published: 2026-03-09T19:27:31+00:00
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## Resource

Could society manage if we didn’t have a government forcing us to do things? Would everything descend into chaos? Or are there resources in our human nature that enable us to adjust ourselves lawfully to one another, even when state enforcement is not looming in the background? In this episode of Independent Conversations, Prof. Aeon Skoble makes the case for no government …and makes that case better than you might expect.

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