It is simply impossible to eliminate some form of hierarchy in wealth and power. Monarchy and aristocracy will always be with us, are with us as we speak. Maybe not in the names and trappings they used to have, but they're still there.

I've been making this point for basically a decade now and it feels more true than ever. Look around you. It's 2025. You sit at the summit of, basically, 400 years of revolution. If we presume that the Age of Revolution as we know it begins with the English Civil War, it's basically been four centuries of upheaval. Wars, economic calamities, overthrows, tyrannies, dictatorships, experiments, the questioning and dismantling of everyting that was once solid in the West.

And what has been the result? We are, once again, in a system where a small amount of people control most of the wealth and most of the power. Utopia didn't come. Classless society didn't come. Paradise on Earth didn't come.

And like I said, it's been FOUR HUNDRED YEARS. How much more time do we need to realize the futility of all this? You've gotta know when to cut bait on a project. Monarchy and aristocracy, in some form, are inevitable. Vast concentrations of wealth and power, in some form, are inevitable. You're not going to be changing an arrangement that is clearly so fundamental to the human race, and at this point it's foolish to try. The best we're ever going to be able to do is tinker around the margins of perennial systems. Evolution, not revolution, wins the race. That is the lesson of Modernity, as it reaches its close.