Problems like we are talking about really make me think we are a lot more like ants then one would think. It’s very hard to move out of a caste once it is set , the cops are like a certain type of ant , the poor are like a certain type of ant, the wealthy and powerful are like a certain type of ant and they soothe the rest with platitudes for as long as it works and only acquiesce to any thing their “inferiors” want in “progress”to the very minimal degree to maintain things in the colony…nothing else will ever get done regardless of what kind of political arrangement mask is put over the colony….the composition of the lowly may gradually shift but it is not ever very fast. When it looks like it’s changing fast , or is supposed to , like with abolition, or the bolshevik revolution it isn’t. There in nothing in our society that makes me think it will ever conduct itself outside of this kind of model.
