A lot of what makes society and politics so hard comes from the fact that humans have among the most demanding offspring of any living creature. This starts wit

A lot of what makes society and politics so hard comes from the fact that humans have among the most demanding offspring of any living creature. This starts with pregnancy and birth which is a life threatening medical condition with a high mortality rate without modern medicine. We can’t reproduce and raise our children without dedicating gigantic amounts of energy to it, causing an inherent tension between the need to do so and the desires of both individuals and entities like corporations and states that want claim to that labor. If we laid eggs and our young were viable more quickly our politics would be orders of magnitude simpler. It would basically be the politics of twenty somethings, but for everyone. On the plus side, it’s probably why we have among the longest life spans of any land mammal. Grandparents helped with child rearing, so societies with longevity probably did a better job raising children.