I appreciate you believe what you believe which is our human right, our human burden, and a major human limitation all at once. We have our deepest powers in our beliefs, our convictions, from which we then manifest the material rest of our human legacy for better or worse. However part of this insane power is that we can take control of it, on an individual level, when a belief no longer serves us and choose something better, although the 20th century is riddled with humans thinking science, money, nationalism, and ideology were improvements on religions and traditions, when they were just as messed up. Perhaps we were so naiively fixated on the new toy we didn't see what it was doing to "us" until the next historical verse of human atrocities were written in the wake. All of our beliefs are contracts, and when they don't serve us we can destroy them. So looking at the historical references you made, I would posit that most of history has been banal, and thus lost. Short of King Ashoka, the stories of political maneuvering appear to be the applied focus of belief of a human as living God, which is monarchism and aristocracy in a nutshell. Much like a billionaires significance is its being the manifest deprivation of millions of others of its hoarded status, royalty functions in a similar realm. If people took this part of themselves seriously and realized it was a common power we can access, perhaps we could stop rewriting the nightmare sequels of history. In the moment of grasping that power, myopia and solipsism are the norm leading to the delusions of the monarch. I hope we can figure out the way to dream better and believe in something a little closer to the source from which we emerged.