Noam Chomsky chooses Obama over GOPs as 2012 President

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17. Anytime you have 2 or more people, a leader will emerge. Here is why.

First, you can look to the animal kingdom. While some species operate as autonomous individuals (some shark species might be a good example), many others act as groups.

An ant colony, a bee hive, a school of fish, a pod of dolphins, a pride of lions. For many, survival chances improve in groups. In many cases, the older and stronger members have proven their abilities. Other members follow them.

For man, a similar behavior is observed. Even in remote tribes of "uncivilized" members, leaders emerge. Importantly, there are often layers of leaders. The leader of the tribe is often an elder, then there might be leaders of the hunting groups, women who have assisted in many successful child births becomes leaders.

Basically, if you take 2 people, and place them in various situations, one of them will often take the role of leader. And that's really what leadership is ... it is a role.

When a tribe found that its hunting grounds were empty ... did they vote? Nope. A few elders decided what happened next, right or wrong. Those elders had been "right" enough in the past such that others deferred to them.

When those elders begin to fail, others will challenge them, demand a change in direction.

The point is that anarchy did not last very long for early man.