Man, and man's best friend.

Ah! It is no wonder that dog is man's best friend since both species believe in the same social ideals. Dogs have a leader-follower structure built into their social psyche. But like dogs, humans also can't help but build a society divided by social castes or classes. Regardless of what political system a group may implement, there will always be that charismatic or strong leader and a horde of followers along with those who are in between, who will just go with the flow.
But wait? What about our democracy? What about our free market capitalism? What about anarchism? Do not those systems uplift the common people and promote autonomy? Yes, they have considerably given the average Joe more power than other socio-economic systems. However, we still have those alpha males sitting up on top of those gammas and deltas. We still have elites in our democratic republic, whether they are elites through politics or business. Anarchism probably gives the most autonomic power to the masses over all systems but I still think the elitist leader-follower system will prevail.
Why would they prevail? Call me elitist, but I think it has to do with someone's given lot in life. Beauty, intelligence, stature, personality, and temperament play a role on an individual's potential to have wealth and power. As long as people worship physical beauty, models and actors will remain wealthy. As long as people worship intelligence, the intelligenstia will remain powerful and wealthy. The gammas and deltas give the power to the alphas and betas. Without them, the elites would be nowhere.
Those who presently have power will most likely want to keep it and will make efforts to do so. Think about the industrial revolution of the late 19th century. Before that period, the United States had a more free market system with smaller barriers to entry. After that period, there arose the Vanderbilts, the Rockefellers, Carnegies, Morgans, along with giant corporations. The panic of 1907 gave elite bankers the opportunity to change legislation in their favor and did so. Our country is now controlled by banks and the federal reserve, the banks' lovechild. Don't believe me? What of those bailouts in the last couple years? Those trillions of dollars the government handed to financial institutions? What have we to show for it? Zip, because those institutions have every interest in keeping capital to themselves instead of lending it during a recession.
The preceding anecdote was just to illustrate my point that since the powerful will want to remain so, they will. There are always legal loopholes built just for them. Among the factors I listed, there is the psychological factor. The individual's temperament and personality. Some people say leaders are born, while others say that they are made. I believe it could be a bit of both, but rarely do we ever see leadership taken on by gamma and delta humans. (Yes, I'm still being vague on my classification of humans. I might explain this class system in another post.) I think this is so because there are some people who lack ambition and drive and are simply not interested in such positions in life. In spite of this, the lay masses will continue to complain yet do nothing.
So this class system, it seems, has been ongoing for millenia. We will always have kings and emperors. As was the case in late 18th century France, given the opportunity, some bright, charismatic, intelligent individual will seize the opportunity at power. And if it isn't presidents, senators, or prime ministers, it will be CEO's and chairmen. There is some kind of beauty to this equilibrium of balance of power. Humans are dynamic; leaders come and go. They may overthrow tyrants and new ones will show up. Leaders will step down and appoint new ones. These leaders can do great good or great evil. They can preserve or destroy culture. Regardless of what they do with their power, they are still an inevitable group of people. So like dogs, we humans do tricks for our masters so we can have treats.

Disclaimer: This post isn't thoroughly researched and my ideas aren't set in stone. I'm open to discussion and would prefer to have it, in fact. I challenge you to challenge my ideas and opinions. If you have any evidence, please bring it to the table. I intend for this blog to be a learning process for me, and hope it will be likewise for you as well.
Sincerely,
Dario Crux
(Constantino Reyes)