Fallacy of the Top-Down Despot

Popular Historic Despots Supported by their Societies

Fallacy of the Top-Down Despot;
Despots Supported from Bottom-Up

American propaganda throughout the 20th century propagates the myth that despots, tyrants, control their societies from the top-down through secret police, terror tactics and control of the social-medical-educational institutions. Certainly, George Orwell popularized this view in his seminal work, Animal Farm. Not only is this impractical on a large scale but it flies in the face of history, even recent history. These people came to power because their societies generally accepted them; they reflected societies values. They also came to power in the 20th-21st century because of hidden forces shaping societies to self-select such people as rulers. Remember the Golden Rule: One who has the gold, makes the rules. Follow the Money and the Me (who gains) to learn who wields Control. Continue reading “Fallacy of the Top-Down Despot”

The Happy Chained American

Just as Scrooge Could Not See His Chains
Neither Can Most Americans See Their Chains

I love the scene in the Christmas Carol (Dickens, Charles. 1843) when Marley, Scrooge’s deceased business partner, confronts Scrooge on Christmas Eve seven years after his death encumbered with heavy chains and money boxes. Marley tells Scrooge that his chains are even more ponderous. Scrooge looks at his hands and says he sees nothing. Marley informed him that they will be invisible until the moment of his death; i.e., the accumulation of his life’s work will then be irreversible. Welcome to today’s America where the combined effect of national socialism has been invisible until the day of its revelation.
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Tyranny of Americanism

Benevolent Populist Tyrant

The rhetoric of populism never seems to get old no matter how obvious the lessons of tyranny. Peisistratos was to seize power {illegal by definition} with the consent of the poorer folks of Athens. He did give them a slice of the pie but at what expense? Though he reads as a “good” dictator one must ask, “What was the overall economic cost to everyone?” Continue reading “Tyranny of Americanism”