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Re:The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race (1987) by danharaj on Monday August 17, 2015 @11:01PM (#10077385)
That's what they said about the rule of gods and kings.
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Re:The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race (1987) by Turing_Machine on Monday August 17, 2015 @11:36PM (#10077488)
God-king is a pretty good way of describing the current leader of North Korea.

Please note that the Roman Empire came after the Roman Republic, the French Empire (which, granted, didn't last all that long) came after the first French Republic, and Nazi Germany (another god-king situation) came after the Weimar Republic.

History doesn't run just one way, unfortunately.

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Re:The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race (1987) by x3n0ph3n3 on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @12:08AM (#10077556)
Unless you want to consider the alpha of any pack animal a "king", I think we can easily agree that "gods and kings" came out of human civilization. Rule by force is much older, though.
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Re:The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race (1987) by danharaj on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @12:18AM (#10077584)
http://knowledgenuts.com/2014/01/11/the-alpha-wolfe-is-an-ou...
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