Lessig's Walk Across New Hampshire: animation explains crusade against electoral corruption

Every culture in history has eventually collapsed, all in the same general manner and for the same general reasons. It doesn’t matter what form the government takes, or how clever the promises are, they all collapse. The only form of government that has made a good showing is no government, but people will only tolerate prosperity for about 200 years, and then they demand a central government to tell each other how to live.

This is a nice idea, but no country has ever avoided the slide into oblivion. Not one.