SPARK -- ah, but there are all the profits, and types of profit (not just monetary), for the prophets/dictators and their followers, for all the various sorts of religious/ideological fundamentalists/absolutists who drive and feed on all of that -- and then all the particulars and gradations in the given condition/context in any given situation, where the mindsets, why and how folks do what they do, become comprehensible, even crystal clear, if not sensible -- history littered with seemingly endless variations on that self-fulfilling theme -- . . .
(to wantonly berate the obvious, sorry)