"That stakes Civilization's survival on never being wrong in advance about how often some weird situation actually comes up!  Instead of having a weak government so that it can't become tyrannical, we have a somewhat stronger goverment with emergency weapons behind locks not controlled by the same people who can use those weapons, and run the Annual Oops It's Time To Overthrow The Government Festival to rehearse the motions needed to overthrow it if required.  We don't have a population that goes along with anything the government says, we have a population that will tell the government it will go along with weird things but only if the whole government quits and we use a paper-cryptographic-protocol, 'complex mathematically trustworthy procedure everybody can carry out using paper', to recreate a new government entirely from scratch in a way that would be very difficult for a conspiracy to manipulate.  You can optimize being able to defend against more situations instead of just saying, oh, well, I guess there's a tradeoff, let's stake everything on guessing the right side of the naive tradeoff."

"That stakes Civilization's survival on never being wrong in advance about how often some weird situation actually comes up!  Instead of having a weak government so that it can't become tyrannical, we have a somewhat stronger goverment with emergency weapons behind locks not controlled by the same people who can use those weapons, and run the Annual Oops It's Time To Overthrow The Government Festival to rehearse the motions needed to overthrow it if required.  We don't have a population that goes along with anything the government says, we have a population that will tell the government it will go along with weird things but only if the whole government quits and we use a paper-cryptographic-protocol, 'mathematically trustworthy procedure everybody can carry out using paper', to recreate a new government entirely from scratch in a way that would be very difficult for a conspiracy to manipulate.  You can optimize being able to defend against more situations instead of just saying, oh, well, I guess there's a tradeoff, let's stake everything on guessing the right side of the naive tradeoff."

"That stakes Civilization's survival on never being wrong in advance about how often some weird situation actually comes up!  Instead of having a weak government so that it can't become tyrannical, we have a somewhat stronger goverment with emergency weapons behind locks not controlled by the same people who can use those weapons, and run the Annual Oops It's Time To Overthrow The Government Festival to rehearse the motions needed to overthrow it if required.  We don't have a population that goes along with anything the government says, we have a population that will tell the government it will go along with weird things but only if the whole government quits and we use a paper-cryptographic-protocol, 'mathematically trustworthy procedure everybody can carry out using paper', to recreate a new government entirely from scratch in a way that would be very difficult for a conspiracy to manipulate.  You can optimizedly-design being able to defend against more situations instead of just saying, oh, well, I guess there's a tradeoff, let's stake everything on guessing the right side of the naive tradeoff."

"That stakes Civilization's survival on never being wrong in advance about how often some weird situation actually comes up!  Instead of having a weak government so that it can't become tyrannical, we have a somewhat stronger goverment with emergency weapons behind locks not controlled by the same people who can use those weapons, and run the Annual Oops It's Time To Overthrow The Government Festival to rehearse the motions needed to overthrow it if required.  We don't have a population that goes along with anything the government says, we have a population that will tell the government it will go along with weird things but only if the whole government quits and we use a paper-cryptographic-protocol, 'mathematically trustworthy procedure everybody can carry out using paper', to recreate a new government entirely from scratch in a way that would be very difficult for a conspiracy to manipulate.  You can optimizedly-design being able to defend against more situations instead of just saying, oh, well, I guess there's a tradeoff, let's stake everything on guessing the right side of the simply-formed tradeoff."