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What's the honor in incest ? I just don't get this.

I just can quote an ex-gf of mine on this one again and again: "If god ever liked the Englishmen, why should he have sent him to an island?"

Stability also is a purely fictional concept since money basically is generated by starting a printing press. Or even by a signing a contract involving some kind of debt.(I'm open to arguments about the point in history when this actually happened anyway).

"Unwittingly" i also can't agree on. I just posted this article summarizing how Charles traveled through Greater Arabia to shill for British weapons.

But the pay-to-play corporate-kleptocracy point you are stating i can support fully.

This is plausible if not only to keep governments to a small size to perpetually undermine more democratic checks and balances.