StarCat/CatStar

value systems were descended from or, one might say, relegates handed down
from the prior long history of civilizations; the one exception being the ephemeral
Greek City States such as the early Athenian’s version of the first democracy.
If democracy is not the recommended form of government, what
is? Autocracy? Perhaps democracy is not the only problem or even the main
problem. If one considers the histories of civilizations from their earliest
beginnings, haven’t their evolutions been under control and direction of those
men who had the most intense drive to dominate, control and use other men and
women to do their bidding such as fight other countries for them.
This pattern of domination by the few certainly persists today. These men have, I
do not hesitate to suggest, been driven to expand their power over others, to
exploit and insensitively kill, or rather give the command to kill, even
indiscriminately kill other innocents and not just enemy soldiers, and also to
pillage their goods of their enemy nations and sexually use their women. These
dominant leaders of past and present civilizations and nations delegate the
geniuses of their nation to refine weapons, design military strategies, collect taxes
from the populace, manage finances, control resources, and conscript young men
to be their armies. All the while, those armies of men under their command, they
who carried out orders without a moment’s thought of any ethical considerations
regarding whether or not they should carry out those orders. These men never
give thought to what the consequences for their aggression would be. They are
typically oblivious to the vast harm they are inflicting upon enemy
populations. They do not consider that the victimized peoples that were being
decimated were people just like themselves and their own loved ones. The so
called enemies were essentially people just like themselves but who had done
them no harm. That has been the effectiveness of the commands of top leaders
passed down through their military and governmental hierarchies for one
civilization after another.
In the past, there were no democracies. With the arrival of the United States, the
label democracy was given to its government. The phrase “of the people, by the
people, and for the people” may have made ‘the people,’ or a sizable minority of
Americans feel that this new country with its new government was truly a
democracy. In spite of that Native Americans, negro slaves, and women were not
allowed to vote. Only property owners could vote. Not only that, but the framers
of the !Constitution and the new heads of state and governors of the new states
were all among the elite, those few men who were wealthy and had advanced
education. the new rulers who were voted into office in the government came