The righteous ruler has nothing to hide. - Curtis Yarvin

To debauch a people, debase their currency.

Was royalism a perfect system? It was not. But if we imagine a world in which the revolutions and civil wars of the last four centuries had never happened, it is hard not to imagine that world as happier, wealthier, freer, more civilized, and more pleasant.

Academic politics is a murky and brutal game, and a small finger on the scales can steer it quite effectively, especially over time.