ARISTOCRACY… So, mostly for news, I’m not kidding when I say start from “Why I

ARISTOCRACY…

So, mostly for news, I’m not kidding when I say start from “Why I and my kin, clan, and tribe prefer to cooperate with you rather than war, kill, rape, enslave, possess, and occupy that which is currently yours?”

I start from the position that my only concern is the competitive superiority of myself, my kin, my tribe. And that I can always choose predation, cooperation, or boycott (avoidance).

All else is merely utilitarian in the pursuit of those ends.

The difference is that I want to increase our numbers, so that the cost of our superiority is minimized, and the risk of its loss minimized. And the way that I can do that is to create peers with similar interests: sovereignty.

Curt Doolittle