Do people really have to make up stuff like that? If you said large parts of history, maybe. "For entirety" definitely not. What you describe was a thing in so

Do people really have to make up stuff like that? If you said large parts of history, maybe. "For entirety" definitely not. What you describe was a thing in some periods, typically periods where some group got too much power and they tended to end with huge disfunctions and breakdowns.