Democracy

Waiting for a bus I had the strangest thought:
I guess democracy is the equivalent of an iterative process. Dictatorship (e.g. traditional monarchy) is the analytical approach.

In a dictatorship one has a particular view of the problem and tries to solve it according to that idea. We even used to train/educate our rulers according to those principles and let him come up with a new idea, but the time dimension was a generation (like a new/better analytical method).
In democracy we alternate frequently between methods hoping to find a better one. The time dimension is much shorter.

I guess it is like the introduction of computers: we don't really know how to solve this problem, so lets try a solution, and another one, and another one,...

Ok, I probably need to sleep about this kind of strange thoughts...