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A big takeaway for me from this book was that no matter how bad things got, the commoners found ways to excuse even mad kings. All blame was directed at nobility later below the king. The purpose of a monarch is to be blameless source of hope to idiot commoners in misery.
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The purpose of marking one person “divine” and putting them above the law and impossible to blame is to preserve hope in elites. A sort of pilot light to reignite a “better” elite.
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I have zero issues holding trump directly responsible for tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths but to those to whom he is an object of monarchical yearnings, he is going to remain blameless. Everybody else will be sacrificed for that if necessary.
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