Dee Hock on Governance & Tyranny

I’ve been reading a lot about chaordic systems and chaordic organizations. Here is an excellent excerpt on governance:

True governance is based on understanding that even simple societies are far too complex to expect agreement in the particular. Systems of self-governance, in the individual and at every scale beyond, are based on understanding that ordinances, orders, and enforcement deal with an absence of true governance. They are an attempt to compel the kind of behavior that organizations fail to educe. Ordinances, orders, and enforcement are simply different words for control, command, and tyranny. Force is the ultimate tool of tyranny. Those who rise in a tyrannical world are those least capable of self-governance, whether of themselves, or inducement of it in others, else they would not engage in tyranny. When they rise, it is axiomatic that self-governance will decline and government will gradually be for the benefit of the few and the subjugation of the many. It will inexorably become destructive. Ultimately, there will be no limit to that destruction, for there appears to be no limit to the ability of science and the rational mind to create devices to alter or destroy all life forms and all aspects of the physical world.

Quote from Page 67 in One From Many, Visa and the Rise of Chaordic Organization, by Dee Hock