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 the best for you, it only makes sense to learn from those more knowledgeable relatives and friends, and follow their advice. The danger is, however, that it will not be long before those at the top will (consciously or unconsciously) learn, that they only have to express some love, in order to get their social lessers to do as they say. Have you noticed how these days people is constantly saying how much they love and care for you? Still, if the social betters made it to the top because of their own merits, it is not that much of a threat; after all his or her success speak for their better knowledge. However, as inequality grows and the society gets stratified, it will be most often the case that the social better's only merit is to have been born to a wealthy family. It is then rather unlikely that he or she will feel any true emotional attachment to his or her social lessers, with whom they have never really intermingled. We can so see that in our modern grotesquely unbalanced societies - even though the political leaders are democratically elected - the System's bedrock policies are completely aimed at serving the interests of the upper class: Indeed, contrary to any logic, the most wealthy are not prosecuted for skipping paying taxes, the courts systematically rule in favor of those litigants wealthy enough to hire a powerful attorney, the offsprings of the most wealthy families enjoy a decided advantage to join the leading schools, etc.. It is not that the upper-class dominated Media manipulates the people to vote those politicians, who favor the upper class, instead of those who go against it; but that every politician knows he or she will be dragged through the mud by the upper-class dominated Media, if he or she ever dares to defy the System's unjust bedrock policies. Since mass-Media owns the best information and always shows so much care for the people, the bulk of the society will trust its assessment of which policies are good for the nation and which are not. Furthermore, every journalist knows well that if he or she ever dares to express any opinion against the rights, freedoms and privileges alike of the upper class, there will not be many other opportunities to say anything more on the air. Likewise, if any judge ever dares to refuse to rule in accordance to what suits the System best, he or she knows well there will not be many other opportunities to call any more shots in the future. Long story short, in a grotesquely unbalanced society, those who benefit of the System impose the society's ideology and belief system; that is, the single right way of thinking, that everybody will soon follow.      

Yet, if the upper class enjoys all the advantages, it is mathematical that there will be even more inequality in the next generation and - needless to say - the bigger the inequality, the more difficult it is for the lower-class folks to rise and the easier it is for upper-class people to stay on top. Worst of all, in a grotesquely unbalanced society, neither the lower class folks think for themselves anymore - since it only makes sense to follow the guidance of those lovely and loving, most successful upper-class individuals, who know everything best -, nor do the upper-class people try anything new, since why would anyone want to rack his or her brain over anything, if you can just indulge yourself in the pleasures of life? Long story short, the way the mind works, inequality feeds itself and, as it grows, the functioning of the society gets ever worse.

It shows not only it is fake the care the social betters express for their social lessers, but they are not more intelligent either. The people at the upper strata of the society are clearly more concerned with maintaining their privileged status than the society's wellbeing, and do not have the brain to come to terms with the fact, that by moving Heaven and Earth to protect the inequality they so much benefit from, they are nothing but setting up all the conditions for everybody's demise. It is a blatant example of how we often refuse to recognize those alerts that go against our wishes. It is not that the collapse of empires is inevitable; but that the upper class will never want to do the things that need to be done, in order to avoid the empire's collapse.

To make a long story short, we have been captivated and hypnotized by a toxic belief system. Those who benefit from it have indoctrinated everybody else into believing it is a democracy and therefore the best arrangement possible; but in actuality it only fakes to be democratic, as a ruse to perpetuate the rights, freedoms and advantages alike of the most wealthy. So much for freedom of speech;but has anybody ever heard anyone expressing in public any criticism against our current political system, beyond a dull and idiotic "our so-called Democracy is not perfect, but it is better than nothing"? Yet, is a fake better than no fake at all? It is paramount we come to terms with the fact, that the monster that the upper class has come to name Democracy is a fake, and we therefore need to start thinking once and for all how to build a true democracy, where everybody has a reasonable opportunity to succeed. It had been very dangerous when the government controlled the Press; but, the current state of affairs shows, it is even worse when the upper class owns mass-Media and is in control of all the knowledge and information. One better option to be explored may be, if mass-Media journalists are democratically elected, much like our political representatives.

Yes, the study of the brain provides excellent insight on how to correct the gross dysfunctionalities of human societies, in that the brain constitutes a wonderful model of how populations of trillions of self-serving units may be able to come and work together in harmonious pursuit of everyone's benefit. Hence, if it makes any sense to you, please, share the link with the people you care for.