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Miscellanea: Thoughts on CKIII: Royal Court

It is the same with management.

“Kings and emperors need what Hannah Arendt terms power – the ability to coordinate voluntary collective action – because they cannot coerce everyone all at once. Indeed, modern states have far, far more coercive power than pre-modern rulers had – standing police forces, modern surveillance systems, powerful administrative states – and of course even then rulers must cultivate power if only to organize the people who run those systems of coercion.”

https://acoup.blog/2022/02/18/miscellanea-thoughts-on-ckiii-royal-court/

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