In response..

Excellent answers Tim.  The comparison about CEOs and the President is scary.  It is really no wonder our government sucks balls(compared to what it could be).  And it is that our system makes it easy and sometimes necessary to PLAY politics thus chocking the system from the inside.  With a dictator or a regime or monarchy the ruler has TIME to make corrects and doesn't have to appease as many people.  But there in lays the fault they can pursue and agenda that is not great or even terrible (i.e. Hitler).  And dear God can you imagine Bush with an indefinite presidency?  

I think China does have it right in thinking the average person is not smart enough to run a government, again I put Bush in that category.  But the average person is smart enough to run their own lives with out government nannying.  But thinking takes work and time and the average person it seems would rather have someone else do the thinking.  

It does seem in your arguments that you feel a utopia is a bad thing. I got that from you statement about cell phones and internet being the down fall of Utopias.  But Utopias can be good and the internet could be the saving point in them. But I do agree that they do not seem likely and agree with you feeling that regardless someone will always feel repressed and have the need to rise or our start acts of terrorism.  

A mon avis, I don't think anything will change until people vote with their heads and not their hearts and hormones.   And even still that will not change until great people start to work for the government as their officials.  And it is hypocritical on my part because I could not do politics, but I guess I could if I were allowed to do it right.

-Zachary