violence on the national scale is the final end result in the clash of competing organisations. organisations that require: an intellectual leadership(representation), a mass following, an identity, a moral framework and a communication system. all of this requires talking, reading and writing. it requires communication and the transmission of ideas and concepts. an ethnic/tribal identity is required to form a group, an intellectual core is required to represent this group based on a moral framework(religion/ideology) that acts in the interests of this group. 99.999% of actions preceding violence even to defend against a genocide are related to communication. words. the monarch, noble or priest in the open lives with the same fear of death and torture as the peasant does in a feudal society. for he can be replaced at the first or second dissatisfaction of the populace. the so called mandate of heaven can be lost. such failure results in the death of the individual and often times of an entire blood line. the moral framework is self enforcing, as the priesthood enforces morals among the population, as the nobles manage the economy and the king watches over all. as all watch the king. oligarchies hidden through the clouds of democracy avoid being pointed out, they hide from the consequences of their actions through masks that they discard at a moments notice. this presents a great danger. within such a consolidated system there is little hope of natural correction. the rot seeps deep into the body of the people till the social structure can no longer support this burgeoning cancer. as such the collapse of a hidden oligarchy can be a multi-generational setback if not a complete ethnic suicide. > 94 cases of regicide between 600 and 1200, which means that 21.8% of monarchs were killed by their subjects.
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