content: I'm sure it always seems that way from any inertial perspective. We've gone through countless forms of government in the past that absolutely dwarf our current form in relative power and capacity, yet somehow today we don't worship our god-pharaoh. No modern country has had the benefit of technology when being founded. There's so many amazing ideas we could try out to do that simply and literally were not possible when countries were founded before. Having "representatives" is just so quaint in the era of internet, let alone when one representative is supposed to represent millions of people that have little in common with one another and even less in common with their supposed representative.