How to bring down a system - The King

Well, I am writing an imaginary story, any characters resembling someone or something is purely a co-incidence.

I am fed up with the techniques I get to know every day from different sources on how can someone screw up an established system, so I decided to prepare a garland of these flowers which I will knit one by one. Here is one of the few flowers. You can use a knife to cut potatoes in kitchen, or to cut your own veins. The same rule applies to this story.

1. The King 

The king is a person representing some place or a mighty nation; he can be a leader of a society, or the head of a small nuclear family, or himself. There are many many responsibilities that a king is answerable to everyone he is representing.

If someone asks me what is the first responsibility, my answer is definitely not the to fill the everyone's the stomach! I am confident that it is not even to construct a house for beloved citizens. But, the responsibility of a king is to enforce the rules established. A rule can be anything, but, it is something that keeps a system upright; Be it a good system or a bad system, only the rules decide if the system will sustain or collapse.

Now the question on king's responsibility will be, why rules? why not fill stomach first?, the answer is simple, every citizen has the capacity to fill his own stomach, cover his body and shelter himself.  

The king comes into picture, only if a third person walks into my life. For example, if someone loots something from me, he is not actually looting the wealth, but he is looting my happiness. If the administration takes care of me and get the looter, my happiness will be doubled not because he is caught and punished, but, I got what I had lost.

Lets think the other-way, if someone loots me, and I loot the same amount or wealth from someone else! in replacement. This is something like, I run away with someone's slippers from the temple because someone else stole mine!

Imagine what happens if the thief is my king himself?? If I get to know it, next time, I will not feel guilty running away with Mr X's slippers and why would Mr. X refrain from doing the same to Mr.Y?, and Mr. Y to Mr. Z ... ; there is not stopping of this. Look carefully, who is the looser? and and who gained from this act?

I am wearing a pair of slippers which I lifted from the temple, I don't know who's they are, my heart is beating much faster every time I go out, because the owner can find me anytime. The same is true for Mr. Y and even the king himself... Everyone has a pair of slippers, but, all of them are scared of someone whom they haven't seen. Health deteriorates,  self respect goes down, social status goes down, everything is going down and down and down.

Think the correct way, what if the a king is not the thief, instead he finds the real thief, and punish him! Will anyone ever dare to run away with someone's slippers??

In the same way, this can be scaled and applied to day-to-day activities. but, how can I expect my king to find a thief who stole my slippers? but, he can always take action if Mr. X sees the guy who stole mine and report. I would not have lift Mr. Y's, and Mr. Y don't dare to touch Mr. Z's.

Now the question is, why will Mr. X report the thief?? the answer to this is not simple. It is because the system, which is established with time, with a lot of courage, with ethics, with morality, with ethics, with many people's effort, with lot of energy, etc etc. If a thief is the king's man, or the king himself, within no time the system collapses, there will be nothing we can expect from anyone, and this surely leads to anarchy.

Then what is the remedy? choose a king who is not a thief, simple!. its OK, if he is not courageous to do something good to the citizens,  but, he should always follow rules himself. And the rule is not to steel the slippers from the temple. 

The system has a huge inertia, it can take care of itself, if the king himself tries to screw up, there cannot be a larger force than this which can collapse a system.

If the head of the family or a leader of a land is corrupted with thoughts which are against the rules, anarchy creeps into the system very easily. so, create your leader properly.

The king is the first flower in the garland I am trying to make. Hope fully I will rope in other elements which can bring down a system. Next will be justice.