I saw two documentaries online, back-to-back, regarding crime and corruption- the first one was in Russia, where the collapse of Communism spurned a corrupt power grab both politically and financially. The other was placed in Mexico, where the shift from tacit governmental acceptance of corruption to it's attempt at eradication have plunged the nation into previously unimaginable levels of violence.

It made be think about the United States- and please, let me disclaim the proceeding by stating here that I am very patriotic- I love this country and what it represents. I do believe this is the land of freedom (especially after watching those two depressing videos). I have to state that so I don't sound negatively biased when I say that I also read enough history to know that each of our nations formative periods were either successful due to crime or corruption (i.e. the trusts, western expansion), or unsuccessful because of it (i.e. the Depression, and our latest housing calamity and recession). There are many more examples in each direction.

So as the Mexcian Drug War documentary played on, I started typing. Please don't take this as my actual opinion- as the subject states, it's my thinking in a stream of consciousness format- I may very well refute later some of what I will post now (or not). So here it is-

people are governed because humans can't be trusted with each other's safety.

humans are simply so dangerous to each other that they require round the clock supervision.

if that isn't insane, the humans have appointed OTHER HUMANS to watch over them.

if corruption is natural amongst all humans, then it must exist in human-operated government as well.

computers and the 'digital age' have made government more transparent, thus exposing more human corruption.

is the next evolution of computers and goverment going to be computers that govern humans?

if a traffic camera system can snap your car's tag info, measure your speed, and issue a citation in the mail, are computers not already governing us?

the terminator and the matrix both railed against computer government, but are they simply injecting humanity where it wouldn't exist in reality?

are these notions incorrectly imprinting human behavior on non-humans for the sake of entertainment? or do they truly believe this notion?

can computers be programmed to not be corrupt?

does humanity posses the ability as a species to overcome it's corrupt nature and properly govern itself?

does humanity possess this ability to do this separately but successfully in over 200 independent nations?

are we fooling ourselves into thinking that we shouldn't have more computers governing us sooner?