The Government will save us

[Fife]

Actually, we suck when some cabal of pricks is trying to run the show for everyone.

We really do, I agree, but why has this been the default situation since the advent of agriculture?

Explanation?

[Fife]

Actually, we suck when some cabal of pricks is trying to run the show for everyone.

So we should go back to living as hunter-gatherers in the forest?

No.

[Ex-California]

Actually, we suck when some cabal of pricks is trying to run the show for everyone.

We really do, I agree, but why has this been the default situation since the advent of agriculture?

Explanation?

When has any civilization not been run by a cabal of pricks? I guess its just how much they get out of the way to let the markets function to how well their civilizations function

[TheReal_ND]

Plenty of times in history where you had great tyrants, emperors and monarchs. Too few on the grand scheme of things though, hence Danes Law, the Magna Carta and the Constitution. I think there might be a proper balance between our current form of democracy and fascism somewhere personally. Oligarchy is worse in some respects than fascism.

[Ex-California]

Plenty of times in history where you had great tyrants, emperors and monarchs. Too few on the grand scheme of things though, hence Danes Law, the Magna Carta and the Constitution. I think there might be a proper balance between our current form of democracy and fascism somewhere personally. Oligarchy is worse in some respects than fascism.

But even the great tyrants didn't do it all alone. Caesar had Antony, Augustus had Agrippa, Napoleon had lieutenants, etc.

[TheReal_ND]

Valid. Even Peisistratus had the conservative Paralioi in his camp.