When a group of people who had nothing to do with each other were thrown into the glass and lived together, they began to face a question that began to ponder when human beings first coalesced from a clan to a nation tens of thousands of years ago: "Who should we listen to?"
In a clan society, everyone is relatives to each other and can willingly obey the orders of their elders. However, in a country where the population is growing explosively, and there is no direct relationship between people, who should power be allocated to obtain the greatest common divisor in mobilizing the people?
How the state power was originally generated and inherited has always been a mystery, and no answer has been given in the play or in reality. However, through the development of the S1E7 plot, we seem to be able to make some abstract descriptions of it.
First of all, power does not fall from the sky. In essence, the people have reached a consensus to transfer part of private power to public power. For example, taxation is the transfer of private property, and law enforcement is the transfer of personal safety and freedom. So how does the ruler make the people willingly make concessions? The answer is to create fear, whether through real or fabricated facts, just like the constant exaggeration of material shortages in the play. It is difficult for people to make rational judgments about cause and effect when they are afraid. As long as someone stands up and declares that he is the savior of the world, the people can be willing to grant power.
Another lever for rulers to consolidate power is asymmetry, including information asymmetry and resource asymmetry. The ruler of the wall country takes advantage of this at the same time, for example, he can create false fear through information asymmetry, obtain insulin through the hole in the wall, and exchange it with the patients in need.
The most terrifying thing about power is that it has a terrible inheritance, and every warrior who sees it as a dragon will eventually become a dragon.
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