No government is ever "de-legitimized"; government is slavery.
Slavery is unlawful and can never be legitimate.
James, you've avoided the real question(s) in this post, beginning with "Was Plato correct in stating that the greatest evil was ignorance, defined by willfully rejecting and/or disregarding truth."
As above so below, as below so above. Geography is not a comfort zone for aversion(s) to real freedom. Your "modicum of freedom" paradigm is cognitive dissonance. Please stop diminishing freedom. Please stop disregarding slavery.
Anything but freedom is a mushroom cloud.
Woodchuck Pirate
aka Raymond J Raupers Jr USA
woodchuckpirate.com