> Do human cultures just need kings and princes? It's an interesting question, and I like how you frame it as a duke's commissioning. The root of it I think i

> Do human cultures just need kings and princes? It's an interesting question, and I like how you frame it as a duke's commissioning. The root of it I think is that we're deeply social creatures, so much so that we anthropomorphize inanimate things and construct deities with suspiciously human personalities. It's our way to process the complexity of life and to retain a sense that there is a pattern to the randomness. By personalizing everything we don't have to know anything about a subject to engage with it, we only need to know the personality in question, or even just general human motivations. In that way its super accessible. It's only with education that we can engage in the merits of ideas themselves. Else we're destined to get caught up in the cult of celebrity.