Fair enough, because it wouldn't apply (as part of the power of the system in this very model), to the powerful themselves, means the criteria would only need to shape the rest, not reinforce the elite traits, such as they may be. In other words it could serve its purpose of protecting their power and hierarchy even if it was only ever applied to everyone but them. Makes sense. Thanks.

Re your point about the SPE, I'm not saying I disbelieve you -- but I don't know -- (seems plausible that a big ticket "objective experiment" was infact non-scientifically reproducible or even used as a psyop to gaslight people into accepting their "original sin" - or whatever) but can you show some evidence of this?