This is why none of the great empires exist today. The ego, which travels away from God, eventually suffocates due to lack of energy. The best way to understand the spiritual evolution of the world is to look at how the politics of power and money affect it. Yet it is. You are obliged to live and express your humanity and your spiritual self within the context of the power structure into which you are born.
Money controls mobility, personal expression, and creativity.
It acts as the brake for some, and the accelerator for others, to the evolution of our mass spiritual dream. As people grow and become more courageous, they will pull away from the government nipple that controls them. They will heed the spirit calling from within themselves. The planetary group soul is not yet sophisticated enough to toss out the idea of government, but in the end we will come to that. Although the common people exert very little external power, their inner power has grown silently and rapidly.