democracy?

Maybe I didn't get what you where trying to say at first Padre, I thought you were giving your opinion, but now I'm not too sure.

Either way, I don't believe that armed forces of any kind will be necessary in the future, but as the world looks today, that is a very distant future.

And your right about my idea about moving power would cause more corruption. Maybe with a few more political parties having something to say that wouldn't be the case? But then again, such changes would probably change a lot of things, and unless the system is so badly corrupted that a change must take place, it might be better to leave it.

What is true is that the general knowledge is below our current level of technology. People aren't intrested in politics, technology, and so forth. How many of us know how a computer works, or even electricity for that matter?
People need to understand that it's our brains that makes us special, that has helped us evolve to what we are today. If we stop using our brains, what good are we as a species? We might as well go back to climbing trees in that case.
At least we're stubborn bastards, so I guess that maybe we're not so bad of as I sometimes think.