How do you resolve the fact that the state claims a monopoly of violence and yet human government is generally accepted as needed?

The need for government springs from many levels. There is the practical level with the reach of human with coordinated communication. Over vast distances there needs to be ways of regulating behavior and setting up rules for commerce and other activities across great distances. The whole idea of governments have been very much a manipulation to keep people isolated within small enclaves to identify with and thereby separate themselves from their brethren. This is the benefit to the interlopers of having all the different nations, many with differing, in many cases unique languages, all are barriers to acceptance, understanding, and sharing of knowledge, and thinking of outside groups as being a potential competitor if not a potential enemy. This has resulted in great ease for manipulating humans into killing of one another. It is much easier to do so if you see the opposition as not a member of one's own family. That is served by the nation states and the separate identities, cultural trappings, and so on that make people feel different, and in some cases superior or special. All of these are false notions, all serve darkness, and not the light. The reality is: all are children of the divine, all have worth, all were created for a purpose, all have a history and a destiny, and all are equal in our eyes. The lack of acceptance comes from your own distortion of thinking, much of which is done through manipulation to set this in motion from the earliest times. As a physical being you are raised in a culture, and trained how to think, and how to view the external world. And there are many, many corrupt ideas and layers of self-interest and selfish notions that are accepted as "business as usual" and "the way of things", "the way to get ahead" and so on. The idea of one big happy family is quite possible because this is how the light operates, and the light beings within. But we can tell you that even here there are differing levels and what they are depend on the level of spiritual development and understanding of the different beings. So those who have undergone severe corruption and distortion will not be on the highest levels of the divine realm because they are not functioning in that mode, nor will they, immediately on return to the light. They will go back to the level they were on prior to their previous incarnation or will go to a lower or higher plane, depending on the gains they made during their life. So the idea of growth and expansion will continue beyond your service in earth plane. Some will need to recover from falling backward for a variety of reasons, but all have the possibility to reach the very highest levels. None are excluded. It is only people do this at differing rates, and that is perfectly fine because there is no judgment. No one is forced to do anything. But you will only have a reach that is in proportion to your level of achievement through growth, and your personal development and expansion you have allowed to happen, or worked to foster, through learning and taking advantage of opportunities to experience and learn, thereby, more about the possibilities available to you. The challenge of earth plane has within it, the nucleus of a tremendous expansion greater than anything heretofore within the universe, because of the extremes of meaning inherent in the expression of the contest underway. The duality itself expands in both directions simultaneously. The dark expands further, the light expands further, eventually by encompassing the whole, the wisdom quotient this imbues, and those who come through the fire will be vastly greater than any beings in existence, even those of highest spiritual focus and stature at the present time. Nothing is wasted here and the greatest of tragedy works to your advantage in the end. You know this as conventional wisdom as well. It is much the same as developing calluses so you can do rough work with your hands without injury. The same is true spiritually, in taking on the darkness. If you succeed in prevailing, the learning you gain will stand for all of time and prepare you to take on any challenge in the future. You will see the signs developing and you will further understand the implications, and you will further understand how to bring love to bear to change the direction of things, and use that as a learning and growth in its own right, but without a tragic consequence, but only further expansion in allowing someone else, through that breathing room, to gain greater awareness than would have happened otherwise. There is always good in the bad. It is only that when you are experiencing the bad it is hard to see the good, and you certainly are not living and enjoying it. So we do understand the sequential nature of your experience and it is quite trying, but there is a reason it is taking place, and there is a reason we simply cannot jump in and rescue you in the moment. That ends the exercise and you yourselves do not truly want that to happen as yet. You want this to go all the way, and it can, if you make the choice for it to happen.