despotism [Theme]

Burckhardt, this admirer of the Renaissance and singer of personality, was impressed by Nietzsche's warning against socialism, which “longs for the fullness of state power that only the most extreme despotism possessed, and it even surpasses the entire past in that it seeks the formal destruction of the individual; the latter seems to him an unlawful luxury nature, and he wants to reform it, turning it into an expedient organ of the collective.

The ideologization of the state generates the despotism of power, and its de-ideologization - anarchism. And the third, which is inevitable, is the power of humanism.

BORIS IOSELEVICH

Addressing the clarification of the phenomenon of authority, A. Kojève distinguishes between political tyranny and despotism. Tyranny and Wisdom (1950) analyzes the secret desire of the tyrant (and of any politician) to direct a person's choice through the organization of "obedience without coercion." Submission to a politician is all the more connected with "authority", the less the authorities resort to pure violent power (including the threat thereof). In other words, the politician seeks recognition from equals - insofar as the alleged "equality" does not turn into a threat to his very power. Since a politician (as a politician) is driven by the desire for recognition, and the value of recognition is directly proportional to the degree of his inherent "voluntariness", the ideal to which a politician aspires is defined by "universal recognition" in its form. Thus, the “reasonable tyrant” seeks to abolish tyranny, to the extent that this abolition is not utopian at the present moment in time, as well as to build an effective network of social communication that eliminates the excessive use of force.

Question: How to reconcile the liberal opinions of some people from that despotism, which they often display in their home and with their subordinates?
Answer: They understand the natural law, but this understanding is their counterweight to pride and selfishness. They understand what must be, unless their principles are not Comedy played out by calculation, but they do not follow them.
Question: will be Counted if they are in the other life the manifestation here of other principles?
Answer: the more the human mind to understand a principle, the less excusable for him not to apply it to yourself. I tell you truly that simple, but sincere people more advanced on the way of God than he who only wished to be known as and not be.

Definition of despotism: this order of things, in which high - low and low - low.

In addition to easy to understand that war and conquest, on the one hand, and the progress of despotism on the other, mutually support each other; that in slavishly obedient people can be enough to draw money and people to enslave other people; that for his part, the war creates a pretext for financial levies, as well as at least a serious possibility to have always at hand a large army with a view to keep the people in subjection.

And despotism of the wicked
Hitherto Russia is depressed,
And still in a sleepy stupor
Silent and tolerate all of it.

A despot ordered his Palace to hang crooked mirrors and laughed at the cartoonish images, but never allowed to hang a normal mirror.

Don't try to teach despots to distinguish black from white - rather, they'll show you that you have a red.

Well, when we grew up and went to school,
There were certain teachers,
Who would hurt the children in any way they could,
By pouring their derision,
Upon anything we did,
Exposing every weakness,
However carefully hidden by the kids.
But in (but in) the town it was well known,
When they got home at night,
Their fat and psychopathic wives would thrash them,
Within inches of their lives.
Well, it's a time when we grew up and went to school
There was a stubborn teacher
Who abused children as soon as they could,
Exposing to ridicule
For any of our actions,
Exposing all the flaws,
Which, however, was carefully hidden by the kids.
But in the town everyone knew that
When they in the evening returned home,
Fat wives-psychotic sawed them
All over their life.

Despotism is born in the silence of the crowd.

The oil-rich country with a despotic government, internal wars and corrupt judicial system receives a low credit rating and remain relatively poor because will not be able to collect sufficient capital to complete the development wells.

It was necessary for you to bring your dreams of a decent life. But he needs you to feed his sickness, to satisfy, if you will, his bloodlust. The tyrant needs a victim.