I guess my ideal governmental form right now isn’t liberal capitalism, or communism, or fascism, or anarchism so much as enlightened despotism

And I see myself in the philosopher king role, of course, everyone who favors that form does, but in my defense I have spent my life preparing to be A Good Ruler.

Dibs on Cascadia

 — But you don’t even come from here!

Dude do you even know how dynasties start? —

(honestly though I just realized this is probably one of the few places where royalty would still run a real chance of being assassinated by anarchists)

I mean I guess Bloomberg’s basically made a prince of himself, though in a weird and backward way, literally taking on the role of incarnating the polis in human form and somehow using it to dehumanize Government further

But I suppose the man already had an identity as the physical incarnation of capital