I'm watching a history documentary about ancient Rome right now, and there's this scene where a politician from the Roman Senate is giving a speech. He's pretending to have the people's best interests in mind, but really he's just pushing his own political agenda.

Two thousand years later, today. Politicians are still using this primitive, simple trick to support their arguments, and everyone pretty much knows what's really going on.

I find it amazing that humanity, over the last 2000 years or even more, still hasn't come up with a way or a system to counter it, and we're still governed just like back in classical times.