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I'm not the other anon, but… where are you going with your natural selection idea if accomplishments, deeds, and virtues don't matter? They don't get you authority, this is correct. They help along the way. Authority comes from sovereignty. What I meant about the variables of that office is that an authoritarian can be tyrannical, killing or subjugating a people to rule, or a ruler can be benevolent and take the weight of the law of a pre-existing system. How it initially starts is obscure. I would be willing to agree with you about natural selection and a steady growth of hierarchy and leaders within a community. My point is a leader is definitely someone who acts, that being the one who chooses.You're correct that the leader can set down the first principles of the monarchy and establish the tradition.
>modern society
I don't know what to tell you. If you're powerful enough to defend, nobody is going to remove you. Look at North Korea and the desire to have a nuke.
>and how would you get God to choose?
As far as I know, God allows; all power of choice is simply a gift of grace and monarchies rule by grace. What God does with providence is another stoy. The relationship between God and monarchies is giving and receiving. God gives power, and monarchies -recognize- their authority they presumably have already. It's the same for every other government that doesn't recognize God, except they simply don't know what grace they act upon and they don't recognize it.
>The woman isn't choosing the monarch
Yes, mating process isn't traditionally who chooses. A consort comes along and fulfills a role and the monarch can choose other concubines.
The problem with this Darwinist ideal is that aristocracy cannot maintain itself forever. You are left with good times and bad times and good leaders and bad leaders regardless of how meritocratic you try to become. When an aristocracy is born, the aristocrats use whatever means to preserve aristocratic elements in their offspring. To pass on the aristocracy, the aristocrats send their offspring to higher education, educate them on the intellect, and they try to keep this position.
The same applies for skilled labor over unskilled labor. These are typically middle class individuals. The skilled laborer who triumphs over the unskilled laborer tries to preserve his offspring and interests by sending the child to be taught in the profession of his skill. This could be a form of higher education or personal training, extending the tradition into the family.