I don't think that the current system of government, society, and ecomony is anything at all what the founding fathers had in mind... and our world today is so vastly different from theirs that they probably could not begin to imagine it turning out like this. The founding fathers had some swell ideas but over the years this system has grown ever larger, more perverted, and more deeply rooted... I reckon that the majority of people out there nowadays could not possibly imagine living any other way. I would like nothing more than to live an idealized existance without massive governments and corporations, to live in small tribal co-operatives, and to have real freedom... but i feel that not even a citizen uprising could bring down the beast that has been born from capitalism. Capitalism has become massive and corrupt... and for many people, it is all that they know and thats a hard thing to break away from. And the world itself has gotten larger as well. Nowadays you have a single city with damn near the population of the original 13 colonies packed into it and then some... Anarchy, co-ops, and tribal lifestyle do work well on a small scale... but today we don't have small scale, we have a population out of control. And with such a large dense population ,if there was not one large pervasive system binding them together it would become chaos... opposing ideas would clash together, many of those who grew up in a greedy capitalist system would not be able to let go of their greed, petty differences would lead to open conflict, etc... I fear that the only way we could get back to a utopian tribal existance would be in the aftermath of a planetary catastrophe, in which the population had been set back enough that peaceful semi-anarchist tribes could prosper. Capitalism and government have grown massive and it will be no easy task to do away with them... through uprising alone it would take more than a generation to bring the system down. Greed-heads and profiteers will continue to attempt to rebuild the system that gave them wealth and power... and still others may take advantage of the power vacuum and become greedy and powerful for the first time of their lives. In a world so large with so many different ideologies a revolution would be no easy task. Things will never again be like they were for our ancestors but it isn't impossible for our decendants to live a more utopian life... it certainly won't happen overnight though. Viva la revolution.