That is why there was a tribal witch doctor to justify the chief.
Then the priests justified the king as appointed by God.
And now academia justifies the state as if we needed Big Brother in every aspect of social life.
The so-called βsocial contractβ is mere magical shamanism that gives unilateral power to the state over the individual, which also makes people feel offended when someone dares to challenge that social contract as a fallacy. A kind of Stockholm syndrome.