Thousands of years ago, in Greece, when the very first STATE was established, an agreement was declared by State and the Citizen. The State offered Identity, Services, Peace, Prosperity, self-respect,justice and Security to people and people said " If we get this all, we offer our assets, blood and lives to sacrifice in hour of need for the state". Centuries gone, in all civilized socities the same agreement is in force. Now you can easily copmpare if the state has honored all or some pledges. By the way, with our status-quo mentality, neither ruling classes are ready to change their style of opression, exploitation and misrule, nor people want them to change for good. Since our system has no "Auto-correct" option, we have only to continue flowing aimlessly till time turns us into history.