Re: Liberté, égalité, fraternité
Please don't judge the French too harshly; their Sisyphean struggle is the struggle of us all.
The only way for an authority structure to delay extinction is to become more authoritarian, there is no equilibrium. But authoritarianism only delays the inevitable; the womb for all authority is the ashes of its predecessor.
As necessary as fire is for the forest to be reborn anew, so is war for sustainment of human civilization.