Humanity, Manufacturing, Political Philosophy

There is familiar evidence in non-human species of instinctive, rudimentary political organization--power relations, class distinctions, collective regimentation, etc.  So, just as human manufacturing talents can be conceived as compensation for relative deficiencies of native characteristics, e. g. the production of clothing and shelter for lack of fur, Political Philosophy can be conceived as compensation for weakness in instinctive social organization.  Furthermore, just as the scope of human manufacturing has far exceeded that of correlative native characteristics, Political Philosophy has developed far beyond rudimentary instinctive structures.  In those terms, Democracy, bewailed by some as a symptom of degeneration, can be interpreted as a distinctive human advantage--e. g. the possibility of explicit self-determination exceeds those rigid structures as much as the possibility of mobility occasioned by the invention of the wheel far surpasses the correlative capacities of other species.