I'm dumb as a rock but I do have to wonder why hereditary succession has ended up becoming more or less the norm throughout human history. It makes sense for the king to want to pass down his realm to his children and it makes sense to eventually move away from the &quot;every child gets a slice&quot; model which leads to a vicious cycle of conquest and collapse, but how did this ever become acceptable to everyone else? How did the idea of &quot;Chief Grug dead. Chief Grug good chief. Maybe Grug Jr. also good chief?&quot; catch on so universally, even when Grug Jr. is literally retarded? <|endoftext|> 