It's Time to End Monkey Politics

As we watch the slowly unfolding crash of the infrastructure of Zimbabwe, the facts of who and what is responsible for the crash is self-evident. Robert Mugabe’s lust for power and prestige is the unquestionable cause of Zimbabwe’s slow decline into chaos. Only the wealthy and powerful are capable of living lives that are insulated from the rampant cholera and inflation. Vladimir Putin in Russia is another prime example of government for the leading alpha male, as was or latest Republican president, George W. Bush.

What we are witnessing is the culmination of five millennia of monkey politics. Our entire political structure has been and still is driven by hormonally charged, biologically driven social structures in which so-called “Alpha” Males are driven to monopolize all the good female breeding stock, hell, all the female breeding stock. Those of us who are not “Alpha,” ie., driven by the secretions of our gonads, are expected to cower before the “Alpha’s” magnificence and accept the “self-evident proof” of their superiority. In truth, those who seek power over others are akin to “dirty” neutron atomic bombs designed to destroy all life while preserving valuable architectural structures. Their desire for power is limited only by the competition of other “Alphas.”

Over the millennia we have seen thousands of philosophical “explanations” of why monkey politics and monkey politics political structures are “natural.” Such explanations from the “natural” superiority of wealthy, white males to the “divine” right of kings, from “might makes right” to “inbred inferiority.”
The days of monkey politics must come to an end. In true democracies the only power any individual seeks is the power develop their full potential as individuals in such ways that other individuals are granted the same power. If we, as a species, are to survive and not self-destruct we must forgo the kind of hormone driven politics and political structures that create and support men such as Robert Mugabe, Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush.