The Power to Change

At first I was thinking of power in a mechanical sense, and how a machine generating power is analogous to a political system. While much of what I said I still believe, in that there must be an uneven distribution of power for a system to function, there is now many other variables at play in the production and maintenance of power in the political systems of the ancient Mesopotamian societies. Factors such as religious inputs provide an in balance that causes the power distribution to be fixed within the leaders of the society, which was the king. While the power systems still function similarly to a machine, they are influenced by factors such as religion so that the in balance of power does not fluctuate and does not allow for changes.
In my research I have found that king's would manipulate the truth to depict themselves as the one favored by the gods, and would even alter the documentation of history to ensure their divine support was maintained. Practices such as these are what allow the system to generate power and function as a whole, because if a king lost power every time an omen appeared in ill favor, or the king failed in a military conquest, the ruler would be switched out so frequently that the balance of power would be thrown out of alignment and the system would fail. This would cause the country to be very unstable and vulnerable.