In the old times the consumption and greed of the kings was everything, the centralization or power, the usurption of all authority. The sense that it's right to consume all . It is a strong central consensus that powers the limited human imagination. As Nietsche said (sorry , i always get his name wrong) we are "human,,,, all too human "" . It takes a strong will, and resistance, to overtake the consumptive urges of the ego,,, and one which for we may need to die many times, as a collective humanity, to overcome.
peace on the steem blockchain. 
