"People 'like' representative government because they think it is democracy, Master. They like democrazy because they think it differs favourably from a dictatorship. They do not see that it all is exactly the same, yet some think they are better off under a dictatorship of a 'chosen' club of men, some by a dictatorship of the majority."
"This is the Way to swindle people into-, while regarding them as six-year old kids (what they are), into the impression of regarding them as grown-ups. It is the 'Three in the Morning' principle of Chuangtse (Lin Yutang, Wisdom, 244)."
"I do not understand."
"It is like the monkey keeper who proposes to give each monkey
three nuts in the morning and four at night. The monkies are
furious, so he gives them four in the morning and three at night.
Then they are at peace. This is diddling, Ling. The same is the
same is the same, yet, you make them they all 'look' different."