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Even though I get what you are saying, I think this might be a post-romanticization of it all. Same with 'no constitution'.

It just so happens that Napoleon never made it across the channel, and you never really had 'your own Napoleon' and so all of the 'ancient systems' remained - sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse.

Aside from the Biblically dystopian echoes of the 'each shall bear a mark which will be required to do commerce' of Revelations, which in all seriousness is a pretty insightful hint at what very well would provide the means for a totalitarian apparatus to control us all ...

... the benefits of some kind of 'national id' are just tremendous and we all need to think about this.

'Lack of ID' is a 'root cause' in everything from gun registry, to healthcare, to immigration, to financial fraud, to benefits fraud etc..

At least the gov. should provide a 'Google-like Single Sign' on for official use.

The Canadian government is now defaulting to banks, god forbid billions of dollars in IT can't produce 'a login'.



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