[FRIAM] Democracy and evolution

[Marcus G. Daniels]

PPARYSKI at aol.com wrote:
 > we might consider humanity to be more akin to locusts, who form 
swarms out of individual hunger and by biting their neighbors to move 
the group.
Humans organize in various ways, and even explicitly for survival 
reasons, but the multiple swarms they may count themselves as members 
are typically made up of a much smaller set of conductor agents, not one 
large fully autonomous agent population that `bites-it-out' .   These 
conductor agents often aim to provide relief to the biting by creating 
things they describe with words like `peace' and `civilization'.   
Curiously, in this process, they have been observed to do a great deal 
of biting themselves.  :-)