http://www.jockcoats.org.uk/what_has_humanity_done_deserve_politics Comments for "What has humanity done to deserve politics?" en http://www.jockcoats.org.uk/what_has_humanity_done_deserve_politics <p> Spot the odd one out in the image below. All four species coexist in large numbers. They all work together to defend the collective against predators and to provide for their mutual needs. They all look and behave as if they are being controlled by some mastermind at the top of a hierarchy. </p> <p> <img src="/files/u1/odd-one-out-humans.jpg" alt="Montage of birds, fish, ants and human swarming - which is the odd one out?" title="Which species is the stupidest - or the odd one out?" hspace="10" vspace="10" width="350" height="250" align="left" /> </p> <p> But in fact it is only the humans (top right!), the one with the largest and most complex brains, the only one, so far as we know, to have developed some kind of moral sense, the only one to have created sophisticated communications technologies between each other, the better, one would have thought, to co-ordinate our actions when required, the one with free will, and the one that has devised fantastic markets that transmit information and resources around the world at blistering speeds. Only humanity seems to have collectively decided that they need some self-centred egoists at the top of an wholly artificial hierarchy to take instructions from.</p> http://www.jockcoats.org.uk/what_has_humanity_done_deserve_politics#comments constitutional reform liberalism Nick Clegg Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:38:01 +0000 Jock 737 at http://www.jockcoats.org.uk