Well, look. Nobody ever really cheered the end of feudal fiefdoms. Everybody wanted to be the feudal lord. Everybody still does. You ain't got charm, you can at least try to get power over those who'd laugh you to the back of the crowd otherwise. You're in, or you're out, and it's just based on whatever the guy in power at the moment wants to base it on.

This idea that we're modern, I mean really. Just a primate troop, trooping.