Is this biased reporting?

[Eirinjas]

Hi,
"All animals are created equal  . . .
BUT
. . . some animals are created more equal than  others."

You've got a great political ideology -- for ants and bees.  For intelligent beings, it is a passing phase from moros to sophos usually occurring shortly after puberty.

Anarchy? Sure.  But remember that, "Anarchy only works as long as everybody follows the rules."  There's always going to be someone who is (or thinks he is) smarter, faster, and other -ter's that aren't coming to mind, than the norm.  And that person (let's call him the Wolf) sees the rest of society as his prey (let's not call them "The Sheep"  -- that's been done and overdone).  So for protection, the weak will find a Wolf to follow, and competing Wolves will fight, and ranks and tiers of Wolves will be generated, and lo-and-behold, the Anarchy will give way to Feudalism.  For the rest of this story (so far -- we've not yet exhausted that road), find a good Western History book that covers the twelfth to twentieth centuries.

Oh, and by the by, the USA is not a democracy.  Democracies only work for groups up to a few thousand.  The USA is a republic, a much more sensible form of government.

You remind me of the Welsh and Scots separatists.  A desire to return to a perfect time that only existed in romantic imagination.  Your opinion is your opinion, but it would hold more weight with me (and many others, I'd guess) if it were based on facts from this universe, this era, and this species.

--Pete
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Your analogy of Wolves and Sheep IS an exact metaphor for Captialism. It's exactly the same analysis! And Anarchy has NOT been done to death - the fall of Feudalism and Monarchal control, for most of the world, is a very recent thing in human history. There have always been Emperors, Kings, Princes, Dukes, Barons, Czars, Priests, Shamans, and Presidents calling the shots.

And Democracy could work on a large scale provided the effort to develop such a system was ever put in place. It has NEVER been attempted. So, to say it can't work when that system has never existed is, at best, an incomplete argument.