I'll never have another run like that. I needed to meet a figure or lose the property option. Nothing motivates like adversity.
"Enlightened" self-interest would only make you an extension of an ideology different from that, in the current system. Thinking you know the behind-the-scenes of someone is just wrong, only your own extension in the collective-unconscious-space could interact with that. Putting faith into the social contract like this is only an illusion. As for what you said about a theocracy... that doesn't add up, laws are enforced as ethics (through propaganda) just as they would be in a theocracy. And a theocracy isn't a place where you can say laws are ethics, there will still be people who won't believe in the religion and therefore are only avoiding crime due to practical reasons.
https://tntradiolive.podbean.com/e/alex-newman-on-the-marc-morano-show-26-november-2022/ and the real deal...