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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I meant all the people who were not themselves subjugated the same way and just accepted the status quo as "the way things are", possibly never even bothering to think about it.
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For that matter, in many of the societies, the hierarchical subjugation was so complete the subjugated themselves not only accepted domination as natural and proper but supported it and helped subjugate others. The ancient Persians are a perfect example but so are all the big empires from Egypt and China to Rome and Russia. Even the Athenians were quick to leverage the alliance to push back the Persians to establish hegemony over the region.
People these days like to pretend history began when they were aggrieved but history shows today's victims were yesterday's victimizers. No clean hands. "We all got it coming."
It's part and parcel of homo sapiens sapiens and the likeliest explanation why out of all the homo species and subspecies that existed on the planet only one remains. Kin vs alien goes back to the very beginning.