i think democracy is currently the best system for humanity, as far as quality of life is concerned. where it has failed, obviously, is in higher levels of government, though i don't really see a way around this problem, or a solution, as it is simply human nature to brazenly disregard logical forms and systems with a reckless intensity. as far as ideologies go, i would put my stock in libertarianism, but that is usually a slippery slope towards communism. again, human qualities will always get in the way of sound ideas and it will be thousands upon thousands of years before we begin to move away from this propensity for fallibility, evolutionarily speaking. that is, if we evolve much at all, as we are not consciously control of such forces. science could help towards remedying this, though, if science was permitted to advance and was not restricted and villified by the common philistine.