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Questioning the Link Between Commodity Wealth and Oppression

In resource rich and warm contries, less intelligent people can easily thrive and multiply. Over millenia of human evolution, this has caused a decline in the average intelligence of people inhabitting resource rich and warm countries. When people lack intelligence, authoritarian regimes evolve to create some order, as this represents the lesser evil.

In colder countries, agriculture was a challenge and only intelligent war mongering individuals could survive. This has caused a higher average IQ in colder countries, but more prone to wars. For these countries, Democracy is the lesser evil as it lowers the likelihood of wars.
To force the same form of government in all countries, (Democracy in IRAQ for example) is a Trilion dollar mistake. Evolutionary differences between people, due to Temperature and Resource availability need to be taken into account.