Hypothesis 1 - An Ancient Greek-style democracy can't do anything.
Hypothesis 2 - Sophils have been aided by modern social technology, allowing Crazy Charismatics to rise.
In the old days, if a government arose that was tied up in Sophils, it was quickly taken over by another country in the temporary throes of rationality.
One thing that always brought on rationality and physics was war. We don't have that any more. The second hypothesis can be tested by history, but a sophil, like a boom, can only be judged after it collapses.
Crazy Charismatics always lead a sophil. People like to pile on, and speak to like-minded individuals. Again, the judgement of 'crazy' goes to History. Everybody leading a sophil right now is equivalent to a true prophet of old.
Every country, except Canada, is rocked by this right now. Severe winters always force rationality. The US elects the bidenarmy. Can they do anything? No. France wants to be rational -- Ha! Germany couldn't invest in flood control, because that's against a sophil.
Let's build nuclear plants to fight Clange. Ha!
Let's improve public transit - can't be done without taxes, or raising the price of diesel. Can only be done in Canada, where we love taxes.
Let's vaccinate everybody to cover up the dismal failure of stopping covid. Nope, sophils in France will kill to fight that.
A democracy that does stuff is a temporary dictatorship. You can throw the bums out after 4 years. But, the era of that is long gone.
Sophils have hit the Cubans and the Russians. The remaining oppressive places only survive by killing more and more people. Once you hit killing 1 in 10,000, then everybody has a friend of a friend who disappeared. It causes depression and destroys the economy. Most oppressives have survived with oil, but that will soon end. Nobody wants to buy anything from China. We shall see how things go.
ps. I shall leave this train of thought. It doesn't do much, but it allows the few physics people in the world to laugh.
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