> At one point in history, monarchy was a step forward from what came before Citation very much needed. There's no reason to believe what came before was worse

> At one point in history, monarchy was a step forward from what came before Citation very much needed. There's no reason to believe what came before was worse. > presumably some kind of tribalist warlordism, slash anarchy So you don't even know what came before? "Tribalist warlordism" is just a form of monarchy described from an outside perspective. Anarchy is the literal opposite of "warlordism" as it describes the absence of (power) hierarchies, i.e. an extreme form of direct democracy.