Re: Genders (was Re: Láadan and woman's speak_

Tom Wier wrote:
> Much as we would all surely want democracy to thrive, is there
> any reason to think that in *thousands* of years of history there will
> be no relapse into a world system of generally despotic regimes?
I agree, which is why the so-called Democratic Union of Worlds is
neither Democratic, nor a union of worlds, but rather of very large
volumes of space.  There's no democracy at all above the level of
planet, and democracy's rare even on the planetary level, the planetarch
is usually hereditary, sometimes elected by a small aristocracy.

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