I won't deny there are some cynical and/or fanatical rulers in Fonrit.
A major constraint against widespread cynicism, I feel, is the knowledge that the use of unrestrained insights have had memorably bad consequences (like say the gloranthan equivalent of Godzilla or Cthulhu demolishing large portions of the city). While a ruler could be cynical and/or in the pursuit of power, they have to be covert in doing so. If news about their philosophy broke, the other rulers would gang up on them to put them down (and then fight each other over the spoils).
--Peter Metcalfe
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