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A shocking amount of history, even from the revered Greeks and Egyptians, turns out to be utter make-believe, political spin, or false legacy-building -- even the stuff written in stone! The truth is we will probably never know what really happened without being there ourselves, and this group is dedicated to anything that takes history and puts its own unique perspective on it -- as if you really were there!

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Lately I've been kicking around the idea of government and what form (and what responsibilities) it should take.  There's been a huge amount of anti-government sentiment lately (here in the United States), but the way I see it even if someone had a really good idea on how to fundamentally change government, eventually it would take the same form we see now, including all the bureaucracy because, well, that's the only cheap way to provide services to the people while avoiding fraudulence.  It's not perfect, but it works and it's practical (for the most part) because it's the only way it can be realistically (and cheaply) done.

One example is that in the end, if your goal is totalitarianism, it doesn't matter if you approach it as Communist or Fascist because it ends up being the same thing (state controlled industry, media, unitarism, etc.)  Democracy is the same way, because when people vote, obviously there are going to vote for laws and services that benefit them, even if it's not for the general good.  So even if one wanted to make a change for the better, democracy actually becomes an obstacle to that.  As does one person controlling everything, unless that one person (should it please he or she) just so happens to want to make a change for the better (and it could easily go the other way).

So what other alternative is there?  Is there an example in history of a better form of government?
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