Ah i see.
The Battle of Hastings was a pivotal moment in Anglo-Saxon history since it ultimately produced the "liberalist/individualist" attitude through their defeat at the hands of the Normans. The book "Suicide Note" by Mitchell Heisman, that im currently reading goes into more detail on this, but the basic idea is that the Anglo Saxons through their inability to defend themselves from an external conquest, internalized this feminine victimhood and made it part of their identity, like the Chosen people did, this is where the "Eternal Anglo" meme comes from. You can see in their justifications for more modern forms of conquest being made for the sake of "liberation" despite the often hypocritical nature of such claims.
Ever wonder where the North(Puritan)/South(Cavalier) divide in the US came from? Even leading up to the American Civil War, people were referring back to the Battle of Hastings as a source of cultural identity, whether they idealized the Anglo-Saxon victims or the Norman victors. The problem is that by finally winning, the US North took its victimhood to its logical conclusion and also freed blacks to live in the US, despite this not being the original goal of Lincoln.
The idea of every person having "rights" in a vacuum with no reference to a bloodline, tribe, or people was only produced through the resentment at being conquered by foreign peoples who didnt need "rights" to be successful.
Hobbes produced his idea of Leviathan, not because the states/tribes of the past didn't work, but because England was defeated by a force that was not "individualistic". If life was "nasty, brutish, and short" and the threat of death is what ultimately motivates all individuals, why are men willing to sacrifice their lives in war? We like to view war cynically because of the individualist lens of the modern world and how economic it has become, but war was actually more meaningful in the ancient past when resources/women were on the line. Of course, i think expansionist forces like christendom, rome, and macedonia, played a large part in exacerbating the cynicism towards bloodlines because of the inherent "multicultural" nature of large empires.
