fuck the government and the police
"All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?"
garbage dumps fill the earth with trash at an unsustainable rate, oil companies dump millions of gallons of oil in the ocean, big companies dump all kinds of industrial chemicals in the lakes and rivers.
medicine is only available to those who can pay up the ass for it, if you dont pay they will let you die.
our public education system is a joke, if you want a good education you go private and pay up the ass, if you dont pay up the ass you dont get an education.
the roads are fucked and constantly falling apart, hit a massive pothole last month that fucked up my car, this was the second time the road fucked up my car.
government said to pay for the highway they will collect a toll and when the highway has been paid no more toll, the highway has been paid for and they still collect, the people paid for it and the government is charging us.
we drink and bathe in recycled toilet water full of piss shit toxic chemicals and my favorite poison that has no business being in our water - fluoride.
public order is an illusion, civilians law enforcement and the government do whatever the fuck they want.
the roman government failed due to corruption greed violence a lust for power and attempting to enforce control over its citizens and neighbors.
The point is you get both bad and good. Assuming you live in a democracy (no rigged-party arguments, please, they are irrelevant to my point), you are likely going to witness the inevitable outcome of a democracy, i.e. mediocrity.
If you have a citizenry of millions of people, you get a few people who make genius decisions, a few people who make catastrophic decisions, and a shitload of people in the middle. Welcome to the bell curve -- "duncical equilibrium."
