The queries are timely and demand answer. Other civilizations also went through periods of undiminished oppression by various human and natural forces, but came out the more vigorous and dynamic. Though voluble lip service is paid to them in public, putting such propensities to practice is considered archaic and stupid. Constitutional conformism is blandly paraded as a cloak for deviations of the conscience. These are the home truths, the roots of the unfolding tragedy, the sources of the rot.
History is replete with examples of traitors.
But the latter only betrayed small, erstwhile political entities of not much consequence. Today, en masse, not only nations and societies, but the very species of the human animal is being bartered away for personal pecuniary or fanatical ideological gain. The pity of it is that the enormity of the crime is still not quite understood by the bartering hordes. Many critics are often accused of indulging in self-flagellation when they write about the ills of their own societies in this fashion. The centuries old Zorastrians still live in peace in India.