Representative democracy just don’t work. Nowhere on Earth is it working. Never worked, in fact. Information just flowed slowly enough that the oligarchy could keep it under control. Shit had time to simmer down. Now we’re all in a room together and we’ve discovered that we actually hate one another. Only people who win in polities like this are rich people and influencers (nobles and the priesthood, for you educated folk, the very people kings were meant to control, ironically).
It’s not democratic. It’s a puppet show, and it’s not representative, of what anyone wants, regardless of their personal ignorance, selfishness, or crazy level. Only way democracy works is if it’s direct and local, non-abstracted. Big states need a king or they eventually stop being big states. Putting energy into this is a waste because that is a wish for human beings to become better. They don’t become better. Humans don’t change. They’re vicious animals who need boundaries and entertainment.
There will be no miraculous seismic shift in politics that saves this, no morning sunrise that suddenly erases the truth about it and results in magical good will. It will be dark. It will be hateful. It will be brutal. As the environment closes the pressure release valve it has provided in terms of easy energy, easy resources, and a habitable climate and landscape, civilization will fragment. Then a global extinction event. Then, best case scenario, the few humans who are left do it all again.
Because you all won’t listen to anybody who tries to talk about better ways. No matter your politics, you all wanna be king or queen or you wanna be number one on the selection committee. You want glory just for being you, and you want the system to place the people you don’t like under the soles of your feet for you to walk on. You wanna laugh and giggle with your in-groups and you don’t wanna fucking think. You’ve no objectivity, no principles, no shame. No nobility in most human beings.
Don’t misunderstand. I’m not terribly bent out of shape about it these days. I knew the score when I was like six years old. Only been confirmed ever since. I just keep hearing the same rationalizations, platitudes, and nonsense everywhere, and wanted to lay it out the way I see it. Tell you what I am tired of, though, is pretending to believe otherwise, and tying personal metrics of success to trying to carry idiots through shit and broken glass. I’ma just take some me time while it all burns ๐