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Re:A list of ways to “Break the Internet” for the 48 hours b... by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @07:25AM (#15913774)
> Con democracy argument: the first democracy is at most 2500 years old. For hundreds of thousands of years the human race blossomed without democracy.

It survived, blossoming depends on your definition. In that regard the human race has only blossomed in the last hundred year or so, quadrupling in size.

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Re:A list of ways to “Break the Internet” for the 48 hours b... by 392c91e8165b on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @07:33AM (#15913813)
I would call the scientific revolution a blossoming, and although democracies (notably the Dutch Republic) participated, most of it happened in monarchies and principalities.
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