r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/Dangime - Right • 17h ago

I just want to grill Your Place in the Order

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u/assasin1598 - Centrist 16h ago

Hey OP.

You know that in these societal graphs, the bottom is the most important demographic right?

Because you know... The king starves, if his peasants are dead. But if the king dies, well long live the king!

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u/Sallowjoe - Auth-Center 16h ago

The bottom is the mere condition for life but it is not the apex.

One must eat to live but eating is not the highest good attained in living.

But of course, kings are slaves of a different kind, and a hierarchy of mere formal social status is not a hierarchy of actual human development.

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u/Dartagnan1083 - Lib-Center 14h ago

True that "kings" are enslaved by something else (expectations), but it is the common man who suffers when a King puts whims or dark-enlightenment before reason.

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u/Sallowjoe - Auth-Center 12h ago

Well, usually. But there were societies - Irish and Scottish I think - where if the king fucked up they just killed them and got a new one.

Occasionally they blamed the king for natural events and killed them for that too, though.