Since the Younger Dryas, centralization has subsumed humanity because agriculture became necessary to feed populations after the extinction of our preferred food sources, the megafauna that enabled one kill to feed a village for a month. Because agriculture requires centralized management to maintain and disburse stored crops, coordinate labor in the fields, and etc., tech advanced via economies of scale that increased productivity of centralized production, and overlords have continually taken the lion's share of the increase in wealth they parasitized from their workers, consumers, and subjects.

In historical times perhaps the best example of voluntarist governance were the Scythians, that for millennia occupied the Pontic Steppe and dominated surrounding regions, even including the Bronze age empires from Assyria, up to Iron age Byzantium. They did not seek to rule via institutional government, but through civil society and the principles of individual sovereignty that respected the reality of our personal authority over our selves. For a variety of reasons, including that scientific research is fully institutionalized and the power of freedom Scythia exemplified utterly contradicts the power and purposes of institutions, reliable information on Scythian society, it's mores, and the unprecedented duration of that sovereign people, that outlasted all it's imperial neighbors by 10x, is sparse, diffuse, and downplayed.

In a world where slavery was ubiquitous, the Scythian core refused to take slaves. Where empires accounted wealth of gold and silver of more value than principle, Scythian society scorned wealth and sought honor. Because they founded their society on sound principles and were comprised of armed, free men, they for millennia prevented empires from subjugating them, and continually raided and chastised the surrounding polities of slaves and their masters until the innumerable hordes burst out of East Asia and overwhelmed them.

Today advances in economies of scale potential to centralized production are no longer the leading edge of tech advance, and decentralization of production most increases productivity and advances tech. This decentralizes economic wealth, political power, and security, undermining centralization that cannot compete. Centralization is shown not to be necessary to civilization, but rather parasitic, a force that impedes the development and felicity of civil society. I see the horrific crimes against humanity being imposed by pathological overlords today as a desperate attempt to prevent the loss of tyrannical power and sybaritic wealth madmen are determined to keep, though they reduce the world to ashes to keep their status. They care only to rule, and will not willingly watch free men advance the felicity and prosperity humanity enjoys while they are reduced to mere peers of their fellows that must merit the wealth they enjoy, like all free men of our posterity will.

Narcissistic psychopaths have attained to that institutional power by being willing and able to commit atrocities that properly socialized men will not, and cannot acknowledge their own fallibility, nor learn from their mistakes. For these reasons I expect them to wreak horrific havoc with their waning power, until they reap the violence and destruction they have sown, and the laws of physics that mandate decentralization prevail and advance freedom and the felicity of humanity that merit their wealth and freedom by making it.