Historian Max Adams writes about this perverse interesting sort of you know government by posse and these possees even have a name I mean if you're a fan of the Vikings you've heard of the herd men or the housecarls that's just a fancy Scandinavian way of saying my boys. so addicted to rating because it becomes addicted to the stuff because the stuff is required to keep your posse happy and if you don't have a posse well then you're probably in somebody else's posse says Price.