Democracy is not my standard.

If the state is a temporary establishment in the development of human society, an idea with which I follow and agree, then we who make up society are doing each other a great disservice by abandoning almost all study and research into political science.

People, as a species, are genetically hardwired to respond and act towards an incentive or reward. Individually, you see this phenomenon in the hard-wiring of human brain chemistry and with the “reward center” and, collectively, it is expressed through the external and material rewards of society. In America, we have created a political environment so toxic and ignorant -- so full of cruel, close-minded and mediocre, small people -- that our greatest and most able thinkers, instead of trying to understand and best a bunch of moron's in what amounts to some perverse idiot pageant, have completely abandoned the subject of political (and, arguably, economic) theory. And what has that left us with? Individual autodidacts going on tangents on a blog, a 200 year old, bastardized form of government that, while admittedly responsible and effective in hyper-local settings, in 2013 is woefully inadequate and laughably archaic, and the "Tea-Party" movement. Hey, at least those dorks are trying, I guess.

America (not to say anything of mankind) has a remarkably decorated laundry list of accomplishments in the realms of science, mathematics, and technology. By and large we have told our finest thinkers, and at an early age, you will be rewarded by society if you can achieve in the aforementioned fields; if find a cure of AIDs, if you can discover the Higgs Boson, or if you can create a social media platform, so is it any wonder that is what they set out to do? Unquestionably, we have reaped the benefits of our greatest thinkers and will continue to do so for generations- nobody will argue the societal gains and value- but why have discouraged investigation into matters of individual and societal relationships and freedom. Why have we discouraged the investigation of the relationship between the state and man and how we can improve on the various structures we have developed and implemented since the time of ancient city states?

Imagine if we were to take the same academic and practical approach to science and technology that we have largely taken with philosophy, both generally and politically speaking. We would have created the horse and buggy, declared it to be the most definitive mode of transportation ever, anointed it "God's will", we would have sold the idea (and the horse and buggy very cheaply) to the vox populi and stagnated on that idea so that 200 years later we would find we are an even larger society who is without the luxury of the resources or an environment with which to sustain a horse and buggy culture. That is what we have effectively done with respect to Democracy:

 "Government of the people, by the people, for the people" forever, no matter what, to infinity, no take-backs so don't even try to conjure up a better system or you are a traitorous racist who can find somewhere else to live."

My worry for a better future for my kids is not the "impending financial doom" or the "debt crisis" or any number of other silly constructs the talking heads crow about to draw up fear, it is only that they  might live in a nation and in a society that is (over)populated with too much "fat part" of the bell curve who represent the simple and sad cretins, content to continue on the status quo who willfully exist without a critical thinking bone in their body. A people who while more complicated than cattle are just as immovable when confused and dug in and a people who make movement, and by virtue progress, impossible.

Do I have a favorable alternative or at least the rough sketch of what one looks like? No. I have spent many years "working hard" to "provide for my family" and "be a good dad" and rationalizing that's good enough work and socially responsible and respectable. It's not, it's self-limiting and pathetic and wholly my own fault.

Is Anarchy the answer to a better world and society? Probably not (at least not for people like you when there is a sizable amount of guys like me out here), but I am hopeful there will be a time soon when at least people aren’t upbraided for asking the question of what is and the pursuit thereof.