Egalitarian Reputational Ethics is Dead (Antithesis)

Tocqueville's peeps were Northern yeoman farmers,

They created the ethics that he saw,

Now they are outnumbered by snake charmers,

Goodbye to Jackson and the scared crow's caw.

We're big civ now with big institutions,

The U.S., France, China, it's all the same,

Don't look to town meetings for solutions,

Who knows your neighbor?  It's a Mega game.

Old Athens, old America--they're dead,

Rep eth now is digital and broken,

You're a global tool with a fractured head,

Rep eth's gone like an NYC token.

I'm not Tocqueville, don't ask me for answers,

Rep eth has died from multiple cancers.