As I am surfing the World Wide Web, I come across an article in the Financial Times in which a certain Onora O’Neill is pictured and quoted in the title: “I fear for democracy.” Having never heard of the elderly lady, I google her name. As it turns out, she is an emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Born in 1941, she has written widely on political philosophy and ethics, international justice, bioethics, and the like. Immanuel Kant seems to be one of her favorite precursors. Loaded with honors and distinctions, she is also a baroness. At any rate, her fear for democracy is squarely about the Brexit pandemonium. Indeed, it is enough to spend an hour or two watching the shenanigans in the British Parliament to understand her qualms. I do not fear for democracy, though. It has been a pastime of the rich long enough, and its time has passed already. By now, it is a travesty of itself. What with climate change and the resulting wars, the calamities awaiting the human race will shortly put an end to the futile show, and good old feudalism will be back with a vengeance. Pace baroness O’Neill, history is only history.