Hey guys.
An interesting question just came to my mind. Nowadays, we naturally consider democracy as being the best system of all, both for ethical and practical reasons. Democracy produced nations which are richer and more powerful than any other nation before them. Democracy is the triumphant winner of 20th century's system-competition.
But....if all this is true, why didn't democracy survive in ancient Greece?
My first answer to this was, that the attendant circumstances weren't just that good. The Greek states were tiny and constantly at war with one another, while a seemingly omnipotent superstate was waiting at the doorstep. In evolutionary terms, it reminded me of humans living in the age of the dinosaurs. They would not have survived either.
But on second thought, it became clear that this is not a consistent argument, since Persian attempts of invading Greece were repeatedly repelled from greek armies, who, in the face of a common threat, forgot their quarrels and allied themselves with one another.
So why did democracy die? And I won't take "The time hadn't come yet" for an answer
