Yes!
There are those times with your friends when as a group the whole of your activities revolves around the wishes of one friend who has become obsessed with doing a certain thing, so that everyone else is pulled along due to the tight bonds, half-heartedly engaging in whatever it is that the insistent friend wants to do.
These things happen. We all get fixed on something from time to time and wish to drag our companions along. But what if this is what's happening on a larger scale, in perpetuation, and the insistent friend in this case is the ruling elite: powerful leaders of empire, titans of finance, tech, and industry (well, what's left of industry)?
