"When an army feeds its horses with grain and kills it's cattle for food, and when the men do not hang their cooking pots over the campfires, showing that they will not return to their tents, you may know that they are determined to fight to the death."
This is the crux of the matter imho: "instinctual need for self-preservation."
Put simply, it no longer exists for the vast majority, dare I say, 98% of Australians (if we are to believe the numbers).
Govern me harder, daddy.
"When an army feeds its horses with grain and kills it's cattle for food, and when the men do not hang their cooking pots over the campfires, showing that they will not return to their tents, you may know that they are determined to fight to the death."
Sun Tzu, Art of War
Thanks, and I agree. Sophistry as used in this talk didn't fit snugly for what they are saying is extremely undesirable and to be avoided.
Sophia, knowledge, wisdom.