[quote=@Etcetera]
<Snipped quote by Tank O The Lake>

Ah!
*Claps once*
I see why you've brought us here. Yes, a government's power comes because it wields death. Even in brief periods of order, chaos lurks beneath the surface as the stabler state, ready to erupt at a moment's notice. But the key is that while they agreed to set aside death momentarily, wielding its power proved greater than the power of their agreement. So in order to rob death of its strength, mankind must bind itself behind something that naturally defies death.
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*I smile.*

You understand now.  Only that which unites itself in the eternal can ever [i]be[/i] eternal.  Unfortunately, it seems ideals of liberty can very much perish from this earth, as this world shows; the fall of the Axis Powers, and the fall of the Berlin Wall forty years later, shows that neither communism nor fascism is what we're looking for either.  Even technocracy, government by the learned man, doesn't last, as this pitiful little world government can show you.

The question, then, is what, in a universe defined by laws of entropy and inevitable decay, can ever truly defy death?  Can anything?

In truth, I doubt such a thing exists.