I say that men are instinctively social animals who live by hierarchy. There is no mystery about this. Men were once warriors defending the borders, just like the chimpanzees in Before the Dawn by Nicholas Wade. In chimpanzee troops the males patrol the border in threes. Obviously, when the three chimp comrades encounter an intruder from another troop someone needs to decide who holds down the intruder and who bashes his brains out with a rock.

So it is in a human army, with a hierarchy of generals over officers over NCOs over privates.

Now, the social scientists in our modern era advertise the conceit that they believe in equality. So did Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong, dictators of the most unegalitarian regimes in history.

The fact is that every government that ever was and ever will be is a hierarchy, with a king or president or Dear Leader at the top and various subordinate ranks below.

But what is this magnificent hierarchy to do? That is the existential problem that faces every Great Leader who has climbed the greasy pole of political hierarchy. Somehow, they all decide on a war against an enemy.

But Alamogordo has rather taken the shine off glorious world wars, and so our Dear Leaders have been forced to find new enemies.

That is why, as Jeffrey A. Tucker relates, the World Health Organization went all-in on the existential war against........

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