So either (a) we're dumb and pathetic, or (b) these issues are more complicated than we give them credit for. For example, even though my personal opinion is t

So either (a) we're dumb and pathetic, or (b) these issues are more complicated than we give them credit for. For example, even though my personal opinion is that royalty is an abomination, how can I be so sure that the evolution of human social organization didn't require that particular structure? What if social organization is just a hard optimization problem, and king/queen rule is a temporary equilibrium state?