Bastards arise naturally where negatives pile up. For example, the cult of power can be seen as a defensive response and as fuel for many political movements built on negativity.

As a motivating force and a basic concept, power becomes the first candidate for this kind of “negative-protective” reaction among otherwise healthy, moderately educated people but with low-depth processing when it comes to perspective and calculating consequences.

They will never agree it is “protection”, because it sits deep in the subconscious and does not fit popular, easily recognizable brain patterns, but instead forms deep inner echoes, or something like that.

But this is an ancient reflex. In a post-information world, complexity is too high for this logic. Raw power can win moments, but it cannot run reality for long. Fear gives short-term control and long-term blindness. People who are not protected by luck and still support negativity-or-fun-based movements this have a very high chance of paying personal costs for those decisions.