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Must democracy "deliver the goods" to beat autocracy?


There is an idea floating around that democracy must somehow produce "better results" than fascism or autocracy to beat it or withstand it. The notion is int...

We invented intricate bureaucratic mazes, office work which basically emulates the army with its uniforms and hierarchies, video games and a bunch of other utter BS to mimic the primal struggle for life. Our immune systems basically hallucinate threats and run amok because we're in bad shape from sitting on our asses and shoving food down our snack hatches all day but not sick enough to be in danger and auto-immune conditions skyrocket. Even minor prosperity minus the novelty feels like a golden cage, and before they actually experience the horror of it, people crave the fight for their life and the pain that comes with it because they are actually kind of built for it.

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