condorcet demonstrated 200 years ago that it's incoherent to talk about what a group of more than four people collectively wants

arrow sharpened this result to a needle point in the 01940s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theore...

the nature of government is that it keeps people, individually, subjugated against their will; police that can only arrest people who want to be arrested, prisons who can only imprison people who want to be imprisoned, or armies that can only beat armies that want to be beaten, are not effective police, prisons, or armies

(democracy is still better than dictatorship or other forms of monarchy)