The Theory of Positive Disintegration (TPD) and the leveraging of trauma and addictions for greed and profit
(TPD) is best understood, like anything, by those who've lived it, rather than studied it...
Governments tend, unless stopped, naturally to self-destruct, systemically and intentionally, because:
traumas,
fears (especially of death, of oneself or loved ones),
dysfunctional co-dependencies and ego (lack of self-love),
combine with other suicidal feedback loops.
Suicidal here refers to the self-destruction of:
oneself or a human being,
of and by natural systems of organisms and creatures,
and ‘unnatural systems’, extending to ‘machine learning’ computer algorithms, and artificial intelligences.
Unregulated leadership tends to destroy what feeds it, until the entire system learns by disintegration, then rebirths.
Rebirth (emotional growth) for humans is painful; resisted until it can be avoided no longer; that is until the pain of disintegration is greater than the fear of change.
Dabrowski/Tillier's Theory of Positive Disintegration (TPD - see PositiveDisintegration.com) explains well, although TPD, as for anything, is much easier to understand by people who've lived through it and survived it, namely suicidal crisis or 'ego-death'.
Nietzsche was right (I paraphrase), "What does not kill me makes me stronger".
Moreover, within living memory and a few more generations, most humans became addicted to carbs/sugars, ultra-processed foods/drinks, living and working indoors sitting down, and believing that what we see on technology screens is real and true, all of which compounds metabolic inflammation, which is present in every human illness, and which is all
leveraged for greed and profit, systemically and intentionally by governments throughout human history.
Fear produces inflammation and fuels addictions and generational traumas, and this has been known as a way to distort perceived realities for a very long time.
Reality isn't what we believe; it's imagined.
nice one Alan!