The Lesser of Two Evils

The next two chapters are devoted to ridiculing the British and modern society and systems of government, and here in lies the remark about Queen Anne that is talked about in the introduction, which again is a joke on how obsessed people are with propriety. He also seems to imply that these ineffective systems of government cause a great deal of badness, like all the horrible thing she lists midway through page 198, which the Houynhnhms are not familiar with, and it shown that they also do not know disease or ill health. However the fact that this is unknown to them is not necessarily good either, as a society without these things would imply the ridiculousness of feeling superior, exploiting others and general “badness”. So basically Swift is trying to make people always think what the cost is, and consider that every system of government brings its own evil.