" It would astound me if our present version of what we call "democracy" was the finest possible social system people can attain to."

Because it isn't - "democracy" has become interchangeable with "capitalism" and along with laissez-faire economic policies have created a society of astounding inequality (I would suggest you could call this Western Capitalism as practiced in the US, Canada, Australia and UK).

Of course this is heresy in some parts of the world - the suggestion that the western capitalist system we have spent so long defending has become as corrupt as the alternative systems (I hesitate to use the word ideologies - communism and democracy have never been practiced in their purest form, so we can't be sure which works best) and doesn't serve the needs of the people who live under it. It's not long before the cries of those with vested interests drown out the disenfranchised voices calling for change. The media, big business and the church is largely controlled by white Westerners with a lot to loose if the status quo changes.

The new dark age we find ourselves on the brink of