Jared, I think Democracy is humanity's natural state, civilization is not. Nature certainly models democracy beautifully. Only when the money was publicly issued debt-free did anything approximating democracy occur. As long as money is issued by privately owned institutions as debt for profit there can be no democracy. The tribal cultures believed they owed their lives and sustenance to the Great Mother, the Earth, the natural world, and they treated her with reverence. We have had that connection beaten, tortured, kidnapped and murdered out of us, according to the dictates of the wealthy European rulers. It continues today and we need to rise up and protect our natural world and all its inhabitants. As Margaret Thatcher said on behalf of the rulers, "Economics are the method, the object is the change the human heart and soul." Not sure that change is what we would want. Today the rulers tell us, "You will own nothing and you will be happy." As long as that means everyone I'm cool with that. After all, how can anyone really own the Great Mother Goddess Earth? Perhaps we are evolving after all and the rulers just don't know it yet. We are in apocalypse now, an end and a new beginning. Hopefully, humanity will survive the end and practice Sankofa to discover where it went wrong.