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The future seems mass produced and lacking imagination.

Only a few options are possible, though the one assigned to you is picked at random by a human hand.

The rulers can't quite choose the form of their rule, but it now seems to be oligarchical in the disguise of a republic in the further disguise of a democratic state.

In order to be clear about our circumstances, so that we are not overwhelmed by misconceptions, a little research is in order.

Picked randomly from the pages of The New York Review of Books (Sept. 29, 2011), pg. 49, "The Court: A talk with Judge Richard Posner":

          If you compare today's constitutional law with the Constitution of 1787
          everything has changed, but it has taken 224 years, so the change has
          has not been abrupt. The Senate started off with twenty-six members
          who were indirectly elected and were expected to be members of the
          political and social elite of the country. It was a genuine deliberative body.
          So you could say that the Supreme Court today is taking the place of what
          the framers expected the Senate to be.