It's not enough to simply control the body with chains, shackles and threats of physical violence, the mind is what needs to be enslaved first. It is said that the best and most effective way to make a slave is keep them comfortable, entertained, working, and dependent on you, like sheep or cows to a famer. They have to be so distracted that they dont even know that they are slaves, that they do not see their own chains or the prison that they are in. To add to this the slave must be born, raised and conditioned/indoctrinated into such a way of life that they would be in absolute fear in its absence.
There's a reason that the majority of the public (maybe even you reading this) thinks that without government there would be chaos. Those who think this way have been deliberately programmed to think like this, brought up and indoctrinated to have that belief by the VERY organazation that they think that they need in order to survive as a society, government.
Just like a farm or domesticated animal is raised to the point that they cannot imagine life in the wild because its the unknown, so have humans been just as domesticated under the so called protection of big daddy government to the point where they cant imagine life without him.
Make no mistake, the rulers calling themselves government have a vested interest in making sure that you continue to fear what life would be like without them. Imagine for a second that 'goverment' said: "hey dont worry, everything would be happy and peaceful without us, you would all be free, so start working towards that freedom! :-) " and so humanity did just that, achieved freedom and no longer needed government which became obsolete, no more dictating to others what they can and cant do via legislation, no more taking of their money via taxation, no more threatnening them with violence via law enforcement, no more spying on them, no more control and indoctrination of the young via schools and again via media, and no more 9-5 slave force ultimately run by them. Do you really think the rulers would happily relingquish that control and say "oh well, i guess you dont need us anymore"? No! its in their own best interest that you DO continue to fear life without them, that way youll never even try to escape the plantation.
Tolkien even alluded to this in Lord of the rings, NO ONE ever wants relinquish the power once they have it, even the ones who want to "use it for good" all succum to the power and all will cling to it.
Through the government funded school system, to the government owned media and "news outlets", people are brought up been indoctrinated into looking up to others as "authority" and thinking that success depends on our obedience to them. This in term also affects the way people raise their own children too, as a result you end up with a society of people where the young grow up surrounded by adult figures that they must be obedient to in order to be a good little citizen, this gets ingrained into their mind as they grow older and leads to an adult populace who cannot even imagine what life would be like in the absence of "authority figures" and so they cling to such figures such as government, politicians, police and military.
Poster from the movie series: The Purge
To help with this programming the people are bombarded with messages in TV and film about how "authority" leads to order and the absence of it leads to chaos. This futher cements the idea in peoples mind that they needs rulers and thus the indoctrination is complete.
The icing on the cake has the mass populace bombarded with endless entertainment and so called protections and provisions that they actually say they feel "comfortable" with the way things are, as long as their basic wants, needs and desires are met, food, water, shelter, protection, safety, entertainment, a slave will be happy being a slave, more accurately they wont even know they are slaves due to how "comfortable" the plantation is, all that is needed on top of all of this is the fear of all of that being pulled from under them and the control of the mind is complete. If you are one of those either saying "but without government, what will be done about...." or "without government their would be chaos and mayhem", then congratulations, the slave masters have your mind exactly where they want.
So you see, those calling themselves "government" not only WANT you to not see your chains, your cage and to be focused on being provided for and protected, but they also very much WANT you to fear life without them and very much thrive on your belief that you depend on them to survive and thrive in this world and that nothing could possibly be achieved without them. And along with that fear they need you to feel comfortable in your chains via the bombardment of endless entertainment and materialism, for if you were to break out of these illusions, see the world for what it is and come to the realisation that no human being needs a RULER to tell them how to live their own lives, well that would be game over for the so called "ruling class", and they FEAR a populace no longer under their influence or control. Below is a clip which is an alagory for how the rulers see the human cattle populace.
