I like what you write @macksby. Here's hoping you continue to write here on Hive.
Btw. You may be interested in an equitable, peaceful and abundant solution to the "government that wage war on countries" and on it's own people.
This solution is called The Matrix-8 Platform. I hope you will investigate and help it to become a part of this (secondary) reality we call life on earth. You can read several articles describing this Real Time Democrity, by the people and for the people in the New Age DApps Community here on Hive
Namaste
Atma