Politics 2.

Okay, so democracy has its faults, but compared to the alternatives....


What else is on offer?

Fascist dictatorship?

Randroid-y rule by Übermensch-ian corporate oligarchs?

Communism?

Yeah...no thanks...

Funny....there really hasn't been any good new political thought since the enlightenment.

I mean, yeah, things are better since then, the abolishment of slavery, civil rights, etc, but...that was all stuff floating around the memesphere even back then, I'm talking whole cloth new ideas.

That's all they came up with folks, collectivism, the radical individualist reaction to that, and....that's it.

What's the other political force out there?
"Social conservatism".
Bible shit.
That ain't new.

So, these are the ideas we've got to play with, folks.

Centuries of great minds furiously straining at the boundaries of their skulls, and this is what our species has to show for it.

And people wonder why the world is in rough shape.

And people wonder why politics sours my stomach exactly as much as religion....