Either an insecure religiosity or a planet saving culture will allow poorer and poorer leadership to exploit the system and the very people who set up the conditions necessary for it.
And visa versa for a strong culture.
This has nothing to do with Darwin or nature itself. It's a primary function of society if the people choose the social route. There's a price to pay when social organisation is chosen.
This isn't a value judgement or an attempt to be political. It is an observation. Look across society of all nations today. Anything strong is considered evil and to be censored. Anything weak to be admired, given faux empathy and treated as victims.
Whichever type holds sway, will be exploiting people. Presently it's the working class, islam, single mothers and immigrants, for example, which power exploits, most of all. If the strong held this seat, then wealth and power would be exploited similarly.
The point is that society itself, equals, systemic exploitation. It demands it and always gets it. We chose it so we also created it and it belongs to us.
Either the weak or the strong will be exploited, by society. If we are weak on the whole, the weak will be exploited. Strong, and the strong. Which do you think is the better choice, if, we have chosen social organisation to rule us?
By Power I don't mean 'wealth and power' who are merely a proxy. I do mean The People who select wealth and power precisely to uphold the exploitation via the law and biggest army.
Nonetheless, the net effect is for a leadership class to develop which without fail will use it's mandate to exploit either the weak or the strong which have called for the adoption of society, which can only exploit.
That's right. It is society as an idea which The People use as an excuse, for the exploitation The People want to perpetrate. Society is used as an escape route. A cowards escape from complicity.
If weakness is the preference, then the weak will be exploited with all the inevitable effects of that. If strength, then the strong will be exploited. The cause and effect are identical.
If the people choose society, this is how it will go.
Where are we today? Socialism, the Great Mother of society is ruling the world. And it's doing a great job of exploiting the weak.
Do not complain. You chose it, fully. The evidence for it abounds.
So is there an alternative? Yes! You have to chose this alternative though. And while 7 billion others standing behind you, are not choosing it, what will you do?
Some wise words:
Thomas Jefferson: "the government you elect, is the government you deserve"
H.L. Menken: "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."