
Originally Posted by
HenryDorsetCase
don't undersetimate my apathy on the issue.

Yeah .. I feel your pain .. my apathy on this issue is pretty high .. my once very high enthusiasm for a repblic died many years ago .. now I just don't really give a fuck ..
but since I am a fairly militant atheist, I completely agree with you as to the absence of divine right.
I see it as two fairly unattractive options: the hereditary system, which as you say draws on a shallow gene pool, vs some sort of populist popularity contest. Neither are that attractive.
Democracy in its purest (so Athens and the senate and whatnot) form won't work either: well, it works for land (and slave) owning men, but it misses a few fairly significant groups who today would be interest groups.
Why can't we all just get along? People are people, mostly. Some good, some bad, and fundamentally fairly similar.
Yeah .. but human beings just can't .. fuck all of the "great" apes can ... argumentative, squabbling bunch .. chimps like causing each other (and other animals ) pain .. and laugh when they do ..
It's deeply biological in us ..
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
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