Why a system that only fakes to be a democracy can never work, but will only end up driving us all off the cliff.
Any careful analysis of Nature reveals that a perfect equilibrium of competition an cooperation is the key for any complex system fitness and success. Clearly, if the various parts unite and cooperate towards a common goal, the system will be stronger. Yet, who or how is such goal going to be set? Evidently it is no good to pull in the same direction, if the goal is a bad one and all efforts are aimed towards a wrong target. Thus, humanity works beautifully if there is a bit of inequality. A bit, just a bit, of inequality allows for leadership and brings some order to the society. However, as we see today, the society slowly becomes dangerously dysfunctional as inequality grows to the grotesque levels we observe now in our modern fake-democratic regimes. As the present scientific brain model shows, humans follow the guidance of those stronger, more knowledgeable or - all in all - more powerful individuals, who we feel care for us. It is logical: if he or she loves you and wants th...