I like this quote I just read from Dr. Matt Ridley, ex-Economist editor and author of The Rational Optimist. In reviewing history, he wrote the following … which makes you once again realize that there is no yang, or good, without yin, or bad:

“Empires bought stability at the price of creating a parasitic court; monotheistic religions bought social cohesion at the expense of a parasitic priestly class; nationalism bought power at the expense of a parasitic military; socialism bought equality at the price of a parasitic bureaucracy; capitalism bought efficiency at the price of parasitic financiers.”