>>318735>try defending an X and then talkSuch statements are born of multi-form of cowardice, foolishness and continuous escape from reality, that is to say abdication of one's own responsibility for it and its state of affairs.
Making a stunt towards any status quo load bearing power, institution, individual, etc in venue of "but look at the big bad X" is a logically correct statement, - and a wholly impotent one, because it is born of explicitly bad kind of fear, and does not have any counter-action behind it. It is not an opinion of a warrior that can face any presumed force any time any where, regardless of winning chances.
It is an abdication.
Such a choice, continuously taken by men and women alike, is what in part has if not created outright, then contributed to some problems of current human condition, and created the situation wherein some people aren't good at, well, living.
The government, of any type, be it monarchic, democratic, republic, etc and hybrids thereof of any kind imaginable, is an architecture that is constructed by certain people to certain ends. In older days, for instance, things were commanded by chieftains and nobility that commanded their own military forces, in tribes and military democracies.
Those men, being direct power wielders by their own merit that allowed them to amass it or be born into it had, usually, a vested interest in maintaining their environment in certain way.
The further you go back, the more tribal it becomes, and the more directly mature, if harshly given the times, those people were. But they were fully responsible for their lives, and were very much not out of touch with reality.
The key idea here is that those people had interests, and were fighting for them. Ambitions, agency. They were, effectively, the singular members of the very society they were building with their own will and outlooks.
Bloodlines, too, naturally.
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