I am willing to be a bit more generous in my interpretation, and assume it comes more from the difficulty of solving problems as a central authority, rather tha

I am willing to be a bit more generous in my interpretation, and assume it comes more from the difficulty of solving problems as a central authority, rather than cynical egotism. But I can see how one can arrives to your viewpoint, and in any case I think we both arrive to the same conclusion: expecting the current forms of governments to solve modern problems is doomed to fail.