It certainly isn’t the optimistic worldview of Americanism.
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“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Speaking very abstractly, I think human psychology could be a good and beneficial field. There are a lot of things people could be taught about human nature. There are realities out there. Such as: family matters more than career (especially for women). Also: People who greatly desire political power over others are the last people who should be allowed to have political power over others.
Unfortunately, human psychology is an almost barren field. It seems obsessed with normalizing homosexuality and transgenderism. It seems to think Men are the devil and Women can do no wrong. Psychology, as practiced today, strikes me as a negative force. But it could tell us some truths, if we re-invented the field.
Exactly. Jordan Peterson explains it well.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO6VfFqvRkM
Socialism involves a centrally planned society. People will not follow the plan unless forced. Therefore, you need to become authoritarian.
Socialism is always authoritarian.
Hmmm...
Biden & Harris must be exceptions...
Two intellectual saints who want to be dictators?
Biden certainly seems to think this way - he can’t seem to understand why everyone didn’t vote for him; Lord knows he tried to make that happen by doctoring ballots and procedures. Picking Kamala, the lady with a mattress tied to her back, was a master stroke. Who would try to off him when it would put her in the #1 slot!
Should I expect a knock on my front door?
The American Cincinnatus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMYaDMVbZtU
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Wait! Are you saying that Stalin was not a normal healthy person? Everyone called him 'Pappa Joe'!
Right. In fact, whenever I hear that song by Tears for Fears (Everybody wants to rule etc”), I shake my head and say, “I dont! And until I do, not everybody does; so back off, turkey lips!”
Dictators also revel in anger and hate.
After the Spanish flu ended World War I, a second plague hit Europe. It was called “brain fever”, which was a blanket term for viruses that invaded the nervous system. In truth we still don’t know what it was, and today there are few references to it. It also happened to hit the same demographic that had been brutalized by Influenza.
Many died from it, but those that survived were known for their rages and hatred which were easy to direct. And many were attracted to the Nazi party, after the ascension of Hitler who himself might have had the brain fever.
But even ordinary people have been so traumatized by violence that want to lash out, and can even lose focus on who they want to lash out *at*. They desire to hurt someone, anyone, with the idea that this might relieve even a little of their pain.
Normal, Healthy People Don’t Want To Be Dictators
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Nonsense. Take any statistically normal, healthy person and make them a dictator. I’d love to see just how many would willingly give up the power, especially if the society was actually flourish under their rule.
Socialism is Communist Lite.
Being a little bit Communist is like being a little bit pregnant.
In order that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, gives it to whomever He will, and sets over it the lowest of men.’ Daniel 4:17
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I disagree with the premise in the title. Throughout a life and career, I have found that a significant percentage of people actually do indeed “want to be dictators”. Unless the author wants to argue that this large number of people are all “unhealthy”, I would say it’s simply a common trait of a significant number of people.
Who are these people? I have seen teachers, administrators, bosses, bureaucrats, police, store clerks, politicians, and more, who all want to dictate without argument the choices of people they deal with.
To me, the issue becomes how to best deal with such control freaks, not to call them sick and attempt to avoid them.