@anarchony and @full-steem-ahead: I'm not at all saying that governments are not effectively doing large scale mind control of their populations, or that the concept of government itself isn't surrender of free will to perceived authority. What I'm saying is that this implied meaning, if conveyed at all in the word "government" would be entirely conveyed by "govern" (which does imply domination) and not at all by "-ment" which is just a nominalization suffix. It should be obvious when looking at every other words in "-ment" like "achievement" or "basement" or "debasement" or "movement" which don't even remotely involve the concept of "mind".