Nothing new under the sun.

From the U.S. Declaration of Independence : "... Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for new Government"

And H.D. Thoreau from "Civil Disobediance":
"Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right."


If you are watching your democracy devolve into oligarchy, it's your fault. If your way of living, your culture or government is harming or perverting the biosphere that is within your reach; it is your function, as a product of your genetics and ancestors to transcend it. Failure to adapt results in death of the individual and the extinction of the traits that made her unsuccessful in her environment. Continuing attempts to force our way of life upon this planet will result in the disappearance if our species. Hopefully by that time there will be a smaller but more evolved upright walking, tool using, group of primates ready to take over Earth. Hopefully they will have more success in developing a lifestyle that is less crippled by the narcissism and radical self entitlement of the individual.