Government

   Government, as we know it, is a byproduct of environmental scarcity . Like mafia tribes, the governments of the world seek to preserve their current positions of power, while aggressively working to strengthen their economic advantage. As far as social management, all a government can basically do is make laws , establish budgets , and declare wars . They are really monetary system creations. Sadly, due to the very nature of their power, history has become one constant chain of governmental corruption, ranging from the genocidal slaughter of peoples in opposing nations, to the deliberate oppression of a country’s own people in order to maintain the established order. The reason why all governments on the planet are corrupt is because they have to be in this system . Remember, they are no different than corporations, trying to survive in the monetary system. They are all in competition with each other, with periodic “world empires” emerging every couple hundred years or so.

(not sure where I got this I think it is from a book "Designing the future" by Jacque Fresco)

In the words of Albert Einstein: “Patriotism is a disease.” For a person to say something like, “The USA is the best country on earth” is exactly the same as saying “White people are God’s chosen race”. Patriotism is racism with a flag… nothing more. The fact is, Government decisions today are based on the narrow self-interest of an elite, just like the corporations. This is nothing but destructive and unsustainable.