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David Brin

Team Human

CHAPTER

The Destroyment of Democracy

All of this competition all of this hierarchy flattening is occurring in a greater context of community and mutual aid and care. In my novel earth i talk about how our brains form when proto neurons inside the brain of a fetus inside the skull of a fetus compete with each other ferociously to become neurons that are created by growth factors secreted by just a few dozen sites in the brain. The same is true in our highly competitive society it only works through the cooperative process of politics and the oligarchs are trying to destroy our enlightenment experiment by destroying politics.

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