The Mad King is usually treated as a personality problem. History supplies familiar figures. Erratic rulers, impulsive leaders, volatile decision makers whose behaviour appears to bend events. Yet this framing may be backwards. Instability at the top of power hierarchies may emerge not from individual psychology but from the structure of complex social systems themselves, […]
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