Actually this is closer to spot on than anyone realizes.
Here is the fundamental answer: The overall moral and spiritual health of the polity is going to determine this.
Psychopaths cannot control a healthy strong conscience. There will always be megalomaniacs who have final solutions to propose for the challenges of life and society. In a healthy civilization, like most of the past 150 to 250 years North America enjoyed, tyrants are very limited in what they can actually carry out. There are mechanisms to hold them accountable, via imprisonment, exile, or execution.
If we hang (insert ruling class person here) - it won't solve the fundamental problem, another psychopath will take their place.
As the polity rots morally, the mechanisms to hold people accountable start to break down. We're in a late stage of this and it is too late for an easy reversal. So people stop trying to fix anything and just worry about getting theirs. The bible describes this cycle in every civilization that has ever existed.
We will either have a revival in values significant enough that the tyrants cease to have any power, and their megalomaniacal machinations retreat from being policy back into their twisted imaginations, or we will plunge into cataclysm. There is no one fix that will solve this.
Actually this is closer to spot on than anyone realizes.
Here is the fundamental answer: The overall moral and spiritual health of the polity is going to determine this.
Psychopaths cannot control a healthy strong conscience. There will always be megalomaniacs who have final solutions to propose for the challenges of life and society. In a healthy civilization, like most of the past 150 to 250 years North America enjoyed, tyrants are very limited in what they can actually carry out. There are mechanisms to hold them accountable, via imprisonment, exile, or execution.
If we hang (insert ruling class person here) - it won't solve the fundamental problem, another psychopath will take their place.
As the polity rots morally, the mechanisms to hold people accountable start to break down. We're in a late stage of this and it is too late for an easy reversal. So people stop trying to fix anything and just worry about getting theirs. The bible describes this cycle in every civilization that has ever existed.
We will either have a revival in values significant enough that the tyrants cease to have any power, and their megalomaniacal machinations retreat from being policy back into their twisted imaginations, or we will plunge into cataclysm. There is no one fix that will solve this.