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“Success expands acquisitions, which increases the phenomena to track, which allows for un-meritocratic creep into social and governmental institutions.”

“The aristocracy gradually gets infected by the petty bourgeoisie who desire the material comforts and status gained, but who reject the virtue trials that grant warrior-aristocrats their moral indisputability.”

“As the social and governmental institutions come to be stocked with mere bureaucrats, demands of virtue and competence decline. It becomes a downward spiral of the weak and incompetent struggling to cheaply profit how their petty vision and ability allow them.”

“The republican ideal necessitates selling two products: liberty and security, the former for the virtuous and hungry who want enfranchisement and are willing to accept the rigors and the latter for the plebs who will otherwise ally with a Caesarian-Machiavellian figure against the aristocracy if they aren’t granted their petty needs (and with their subsequent constraints of influence).”