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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8784763" data-attributes="member: 2209">No, I am talking about the high level D&amp;D type party that calls themselves the Justice League. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Also while there have been times he has been hunted by police, I'd say usually vigilante Batman is portrayed as being considered a respected hero and not hunted by the police.I really do not consider that the basis of political power.Most people follow rulers because the rulers have power and the systems are set up for the incentives to get people to comply with the authority. Propaganda about superiority can support entrenching power but it is not necessary or universal.Many people do not feel their boss is the workplace leader because they are superior, the roles are systemically that the boss has economic power over the employee and the incentives are for the employee to work for their boss.Many people in a Democracy may feel they elected the best of the choices given, but still feel that their leaders are not superior beings who must not be questioned.You can even take a Hobbesian view that an absolute monarchy is structurally the best system of government and should receive your support, even if the individual monarch is a terrible inferior person who got there just by inheriting the position.Divine right claims and superiority propaganda can be tools to get and maintain power, but I'd say the general entrenched social systems of the transfer of political rulership such as dynastic inheritance of positions of power is more of a factor in general. A second powerful model for political rulership is the power structure of being a conqueror.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 8784763, member: 2209"] No, I am talking about the high level D&D type party that calls themselves the Justice League. :) Also while there have been times he has been hunted by police, I'd say usually vigilante Batman is portrayed as being considered a respected hero and not hunted by the police. I really do not consider that the basis of political power. Most people follow rulers because the rulers have power and the systems are set up for the incentives to get people to comply with the authority. Propaganda about superiority can support entrenching power but it is not necessary or universal. Many people do not feel their boss is the workplace leader because they are superior, the roles are systemically that the boss has economic power over the employee and the incentives are for the employee to work for their boss. Many people in a Democracy may feel they elected the best of the choices given, but still feel that their leaders are not superior beings who must not be questioned. You can even take a Hobbesian view that an absolute monarchy is structurally the best system of government and should receive your support, even if the individual monarch is a terrible inferior person who got there just by inheriting the position. Divine right claims and superiority propaganda can be tools to get and maintain power, but I'd say the general entrenched social systems of the transfer of political rulership such as dynastic inheritance of positions of power is more of a factor in general. A second powerful model for political rulership is the power structure of being a conqueror. [/QUOTE]

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