SlartiBartFaast - Cosmic Musings

This planet’s people are ridiculously simple. So simple they can accurately be divided into the “Despotic” and the “Adherent.”

The Despots are simple to understand—all of their energies are focused on the advancement of their own power. While the Despots are simple to understand, Adherents are simply…simple. In contemporary society they are sometimes referred to as “useful idiots.” They are the Despot enablers. The more Adherents the Despot can collect, the greater their perceived power.

The relational process is simple also. The Despots simply find something the Adherents want to ensure their loyalty. Adherents may be offered anything from 40 virgins to free healthcare—oftentimes anything to assure their loyalty and devotion. Sometimes, their admiration for the Despot is simply enough to assure their loyalty—a characteristic not unlike the dog who continues to lick the hand of its abusive master. In reality, the price the Adherent pays for worshiping the Despot is a life of miserable servitude bereft of the phantasmal blessing--and quite possibly eternal damnation.

Oh, there is a third group—but its numbers are too insignificant to mention it.