Competition matters for selecting alternatives, but it does not by itself build a complex whole. Cells, organisms, language, science, and democracy arise when relatively autonomous participants limit direct struggle and create rules for coexistence.
An authoritarian system appears efficient because it rapidly reduces many wills to one. Along with conflict, however, it suppresses information, initiative, and error correction. Democracy is slower precisely because it preserves more subjects — and therefore more capacity for knowledge and adaptation.
In Aletophany the contrast between cooperation and domination connects biology, gender history, and politics. Yet a simple formula equating the female with cooperation and the male with competition would be a caricature. We need to investigate the mechanisms that turn difference into either cooperation or hierarchy.