My homeschooled children were listening to an audio book about history of the world from about 1500 to 1800 while we were driving. Pretty much all the stories were pretty disgusting. The Japanese were attacking China and Korea. The Manchurian Chinese took advantage of the effect of the plague on the Han Chinese to take over power. The Indian rulers called themselves kings of the world and the last one before the British really started to take over spent 20 years attacking Indians in the south to try to make them submit to his rule. Louis XIV in France was a true ego maniac. Even Oliver Cromwell in England, who did some good things, when he got power, he ended up forcing legalistic Puritan beliefs on everyone. It was pathetic. Not much good was going on as far as civil governments go.

This Thomas Sowell quote is really dead on. I look forward to the day when government is gone. We will all be so much better off when a bunch of psychos aren’t forcing their citizens to pay them, and even attacking foreigners to bilk them as well.