Chris Doss wrote:
> I think there is an added element: There is a tendency to think that
> "democracy" however defined is the default mode of human social
> organization, something that everybody really wants, and left to their own
> devices that is the system they would willingly adopt. Despite its (sort of)
> having existed for only about 150 years or so.
>
> Do people in tribal socieities really want "democracy" as we understand the
> term?
You're right, they don't. But once they have it, they'll like it, and it'll do more for them than alternate models of socio-political organization.
-- Luke