Thanks; it's definitely a topic I've thought about many many times haha. Especially staying an extended time in a place like Portland, where most of the people are super bought into the left vs right BS.

I don't think that the support of authority is really inherent to humans, just something that has a good handful of generations (killing off those that didn't go along), as well as insanely well-planned indoctrination of children over the last century and a half. Pretty sure most anywhere in the world, at most any time before that, people dealt with things as individuals/communities and didn't depend on the state nearly so much, if at all.

The whole petitioning government thing is pretty new too, all part of shifting to "democracy," where the slaves feel like they have a say, so they not only defend the system but actively push for its growth. Even people in the military under the old kings were generally only there because of necessity (only way to get money, family would be killed otherwise, etc).