The issue is not capitalism versus communism or democracy versus dictatorship, but the concentration of power at all.

There are some things that are just true. Self evident, demonstrable and true. 'Mankind will abuse power' is one of those.  An example of a generalization that reinforces a point there; not all people will abuse power, but the average will.

You can dress up this fact in many different ways; the belligerent dictatorship, corrupt communism, or the diplomatic democracy.

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I secretly love that people think Douglas Adams wrote science fiction.

Stephen Fry, a great friend of Douglas Adams', once wrote in a forward (apologies for inaccuracies) that a Douglas Adams book was full of so many spectacular moments that you just had to show it to the stranger next to you. And that stranger might smile or laugh when they read it, but in the moments afterwards you knew they hadn't really got it. Not like you did.

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