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RE: Consensus exists only in equalitarian groups, where everybody has the same rights to express their will by influence and be influenced by all the others
Thanks for that insight form history, very interesting. I knew about the court jesters, but not how it tied into giving a ruler feedback that others were afraid to give. hehe.
Even the Jester's costume is a parody of the king's garb. The points on his hat, with the bells, are the points of the crown, and the jingling adornments of authority. The Jester, in parody of the king, even has his own fool, which is the scepter he is to be seen carrying with him that is usually topped with a little jester's head, a sort of infinite regress in parody of parody. The ventriloquist and his dummy, that talks back to him, is a derivative of this as well.
I often wonder if the president and vice president might be patterned after this arrangement.