Go Sportsball!!

The highest paid public employee in nearly every state is a sportsball coach. We'll solve everything because we're fanatically competing over competing fanaticisms. Advertising is the world's only cure and its disease. God was once the marketing department for town meetings, but now town meetings are advertisements for the gods of golden sportsball shoes and impoverished high school bullies voting for poor quality consumer goods and the rich men who guarantee more of the same.

Because Markets, Money, Mean and Morons are the foundation of civilization(city-states).