Navarro
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Cycles. Thigs come and go with a startling regularity once you know what to look for. After Winter, Summer and after Summer, Winter.
So you believe in Nietzche's eternal return.
False. Nations and Peoples do have immortal souls. They're called Angels.
And the overwhelming testimony of the Scriptures, as presented in Deuteronomy and Daniel, is that the "national angels", save Michael who stands up for God's people, are actually demons working behind the scenes to manipulate them into idol-worship and evildoing. So if you're arguing that they're the essences of the world's cultures rather than malignant parasites wrecking spiritual woe ... then what you're really saying is that all human cultures save the Jewish one are fundamentally demonic.
Ignoring that, it's plain that over the long course of history many "nations and peoples" have either come into being or ceased to exist. This ... rather puts doubt on your theory, unless you're going to argue that there's an angel of "Central Asian steppe raiders" or some other such banality (and even then, the angel of steppe raiders would be rather out-of-work these days).
What do you think monarchy actually is?
"Find in any country the Ablest Man that exists there; raise him to the supreme place, and loyally reverence him: you have a perfect government for that country; no ballot-box, parliamentary eloquence, voting, constitution-building, or other machinery whatsoever can improve it a." ~ Thomas Carlyle.
And then, even assuming your founding monarch is the glorious perfect wunderkind Carlyle describes (the vast majority of which no monarchs were); he dies while his son remains a child; and then his brother decides he would do a better job of running the country; and you have a succession war. Or he splits up his kingdom among his sons, and they destroy it in their internecine strife over who gets to be top dog. Or his incompetent but impatient firstborn successfully poisons him to take the throne, and sends the country down the drain. Or inbreeding to preserve his family's land ownership and wealth results in somebody rife with mental and physical deformities who dies with no issue, leading to a war of succession. Or his wife poisons his chosen heir in favour of someone she believes she can control, who turns out to be an utter failure.
Or his officers of state (because contra Carlyle, no one man can actually run a whole country larger than a village just by himself; even totalitarian dictators rely on a circle of supporters and an army of bureaucratic officials) sideline him and claim to run the country in his name while looting the royal treasury to their hearts' desire.Or one of his more prominent generals decides he wants the throne, and bam civil war. Or he goes mad in his later years and razes one of his own cities in a fit of paranoia. Or his bodyguards murder him and openly sell his kingdom to the highest bidder, etc. etc. ...
Also, I believe you claimed absolute monarchy was a degeneration from the medieval paradigm of king-as-first-among-equals?
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