34863Y166 demodemodemokratia sjel zahav op holpret

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FOR EXAMPLE,
SINCE 1 MILLION
PEOPLE CANNOT MAKE DECISIONS
COLLECTIVELY, EACH GROUP MIGHT SPROUT
A SMALL RULING ELITE! What if one elite offers the other $10 billion, keeping $99 billion?
The leaders of the second group might well accept this unfair offer, siphon most of the $10 billion into their Swiss bank accounts,
while PREVENTING REBELLION AMONG THEIR FOLLOWERS WITH A COMBINATION OF STICKS AND CARROTS! The Leadership might threaten to severely punish dissidents forthwith, while promising the meek & patient everlasting rewards in the glorious 'afterlife'?
This is what happened in ancient AeGYPT & 18th-century Prussia, and this is how things stìll Wòrk Óut in numerous countries all
around the world! Such threats & promises often succeed in creating stable human hierarchies & mass-cooperation networks,
as long as people believe that they reflect the inevitable laws of nature or 'the divine commands of God', rather then just
human whims?!! All large-scale human cooperation is ultimately based on our belief in imagined orders. These are thus
sets of rules that, despite existing only in our imagination, wé belíeve to bé às réal & inviolable as gravity.................
'IF YOU SACRIFICE 10 BULLS TO THE SKY GOD, THE RAIN WILL COME; IF YOU HONOUR YOUR PARENTS, YOU WILL
GO TO HEAVEN; and IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE WHAT I AM TELLING YOU - YÓU'LL GO TO HELL!' As long as all Sapiens
living in a particular locality dó belíeve in the same stories, they all follow the same rules, making it easy to predict
the behaviour of strangers & to organise mass-cooperation networks! Sapiens often use visual marks such as a
turban, a (longer) beard & moustache or an official business suit with tie & medals to signal 'YOU CAN TRUST
ME, I BELIEVE IN THE SAME SUBLIME STORY AS YOU DO'! Our chimpanzee cousins cannot invent &/or
spread sùch stóries, which is why they cannot cooperate in large numbers.

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