I was working on The Doomed Prophet WIP and had thoughts a long the lines of…

This is too over-the-top stupid. No one would actually run a society like this.

And then I went to a news site to figure that yes, some societies do actually run like that and do things that literally everyone can see are plain stupid.

But somehow the main people are so full of themselves that they can’t see it.

That if you don’t educate people, they can’t contribute to society in a meaningful way, but maybe you don’t ...