Comment on Could every monarchy and authoritarian/tyrannical societies have been the result of child abuse?
swordgeek@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
As soon as you say “every,” the answer will be no.
Humanity is too varied and unique. Shitty behaviour can erupt spontaneously at any time.
Redfox8@mander.xyz 1 week ago
But unfortunately abuse creates deep insecurity, which creates a drive for power (control), so I think the OP isn’t far off the mark. Benevolent ruling is largely history washing imo, even if some good acts were carried out. The winner writes the history after all.
But your point is broadly fair - in most cases there is great variety in life. The ruling class, however, consists of less than 0.0001% of the global population so lies outside or the majority (figure made up for illustrstive purposes!).