The article's premise is that war is vicious yet moral, so something less vicious like wall street has no right to complain that morality is a second level conc

The article's premise is that war is vicious yet moral, so something less vicious like wall street has no right to complain that morality is a second level concern. A king not killing another king is moral between kings, but those that followed the loser can suffer greatly. The closer you get to becoming god, the more callous the hands gambled. The definition of being god here is how effective you are at controlling perceptions, how your followers perceive reality, your personal religion in a way. So from the peasants view, the kings and gods are corrupt, removed from reality. That is because the god of peasants has always been the god of livelihood, while the elites worship the god of power. The greater god ignores the lesser god.