The popularity of aristocratic and monarchist stories in popular culture - Star Wars, LOTR, The Tudors, Game of Thrones, possibly Reign if its rating improve, etc. - says something about the human mind's "comfort" with this kind of social organization. David Brin and similar nervous apologists for democracy have that working against them.
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