History Rhymes

 I came across an interesting piece in a history book I have. I'm developing it into my next news article:

The pyramids appear to have transformed Egypt from a country of scattered villages into a strong civilized nation. How spectacular a first demonstration of what an organized state could accomplish! What unprecedented supplies of food, what mass transport, shelter, and sanitation! The power of the state was now revealed. While the primeval state created the pyramids, the pyramids themselves helped create the state in a focus of communal effort, of common faith in the living sun god. The enormous task over many years must have brought into being a numerous democracy, which could be enlisted for other purposes.

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I think this has implications in regards to our infrastructure problems, to name just one idea.