there was the sense of people being so consumed by their petty struggles for power within the 7 king dotcoms. who is going to be king? on the small council, to determine the policies, that they are blind to the much greater and more dangerous threats that are happening far away on the periphery of their kingdoms and, of course, you can see that all through history. it's a common dynamic that takes place in history, you know, the greek city states enterbefore the birth of christ, you know, fighting with each other, squabbling with each other even as phillip of macedon built up his armies to conquer them all. in modern times, political struggles in the france under the third republic while the nazi threat is rising but the french politicians would almost rather bow friend nazis and other. maybe less options in modern day. who knows? we have things going on our world like climate change that's it matly a threat to the entire world. people using it as a political it football instead of, you know, you think everybody would get together as something that can wipe out possibly the human race. i wan