A Cure for an Age
We have this tendency to hold our system of government, it's creators, and the artifacts of it's inception way up high on this pedestal that hovers somewhere between saintly and angelic. (It's to pious to consider itself god-like.) I prefer to view it as something closer to "societal software". To it's credit, it was the killer app of it's generation. A must have product that spawned countless clones and copy cats. It was the perfect thing at the perfect time...
Here we are now... what, 300 years later? Life is so dramatically different between the two times that anyone from today that woke up 300 years in the past would likely consider every single facet of daily life for a middle class American during the period completely, cruelly, filthy and unbearably hard. Life expectancy was like 30% of what it is now... so things like congressmen who've been at it for 50+ years were quite literally unfathomable.
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Check this short story about Government as Software posted by Rebel Future.
