Max’s Logs Vol.2: The Space Legacy Book 2.5 by Igor Nikolic

Author:Igor Nikolic [Nikolic, Igor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-12-25T00:00:00+00:00

LOG ENTRY #39: ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL

Michael and I had long conversations about governments and which political system our new nation should use. It was one of the most difficult decisions we ever made.

Because people need to be ruled, and that’s a fact.

I know… the idea doesn’t agree with me either. It makes me feel bad in a number of ways, which is understandable since I was a product of my environment. But, at the end of the day I can’t deny its validity.

From the time we were still living in the caves and throwing rocks at each other, to this age where there are countries that have billions of people, we were always a tribal species.

As you well know, every tribe needs to have a leader. You can call him (or her), a king, emperor, president, pope, prime minister and so on. There are so many more titles to describe essentially the same thing; an individual who calls the shots, the one who is first among many.

It’s an evolutionary mechanism that made it possible for large groups of people to work together, thereby ensuring our dominance on this planet. Arguably, the same exact phenomenon held us back from developing further.

It’s not perfect or what everybody wants, but right now without those central figures to hold everything together, the world would be in a state of chaos…OK, worse chaos.

As individuals, we are doing OK, but as members of the group, we crave someone to look up to, somebody who knows all the answers and who will guide us to a better future. If you think about it, having all those virtues in one person is an impossibility, but that didn’t stop us from choosing leaders for uncounted millennia, and I don’t think it will happen any time soon.

Over the last few months, we talked about it from time to time; it’s something we’d do when there was no one around. It wasn’t some big secret, but why make people excited about things that were just hypothetical until we actually reached space. And it helped us prepare in case we achieved what we planned.

The question was, which system of government should we choose?

Democracy seemed natural; after all, most of us were born and raised in it. Yet it has its flaws, and for us those flaws would’ve proved fatal in time.

Communism was also discussed, and though it was originally a noble idea, it failed in its execution every time it was tried. Because it involved people, who are fallible.

A monarchy also has its pitfalls, especially when one gets self-delusional enough to believe in a God-given birthright, as has happened to many monarchs throughout history.

In a nutshell, there isn’t a single system of government in human history which hasn’t been tried at some point in time. There also isn’t a single system that hasn’t failed due to incompetence, or the greed of individuals. No matter how you look at it, the human factor is always the weak link.

One single individual

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