The response to the how
The response to the how
the tacit assumption behind monarchy, oligarchy and democracy: A political system’s way of responding to the how of government is not as straightforward as it is to the who (most likely because it is not as visible, and thus not as easy to confirm). A tacit assumption is made instead: whichever Being controls the government, it will use the state to serve its need to augment its information processing to the detriment of that state’s citizens, given that information in the analogue world is finite. In the case of a monarchy this control is exercised by a single individual (the king or queen); in oligarchies by the (limited number of) individuals involved; and, in the case of democracy, by those in government at any given time. This assumption has been vindicated time and again throughout human history. Although it may be easy to see in the various cases of monarchies and oligarchies (less so in constitutional monarchies), it is no less true in cases of democracies: although anyone could potentially participate in government, the fact remains that few actually do.
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