The Sovereign Tyflocracy

American Thinker.com ^ | May 7, 2021 | Gary Gindler

[Kaslin]

We live in an era of striking disunion in the United States of America. The bosses of the Republican Party are so separated from the rank-and-file members of the party that sometimes it seems that they came to Earth from a different planet. The bosses of the Democrat party are so separated from ordinary Americans and so close in their ideology to the Socialist International that one wonders whether the processes of socialist transformation in America are reversible.

The Republican meritocracy was replaced by the plutocracy of the Democrats, but the process did not stop there. What's happening?

Several years ago, a new term was introduced in political philosophy — tyflocracy. It was introduced by analogy with the word "democracy." Demos (δῆμος) in Greek is people, and kratos (κράτος) is power. So democracy is the rule of the people. The word tyflocracy comes from the Greek word "tyflos" (τυφλoς), which means "unseeing." This does not mean the blind, but precisely the one who does not see. The ones who do not want to see. The ones who have closed their eyes. This means that the government does not see, does not hear, and does not want to know anything about how its country's citizens live. The government is preoccupied with only one problem: how to maintain its own power at any cost.

Tyflocracy is a form of government in which the government is in an asymmetric war with its own people.

What they are doing in Russia with dissidents in general and Navalny, in particular, is not following the law. It is a war with their own people. It is a sovereign tyflocracy.

[ClearCase_guy]

I feel like there have been a number of recent articles with neologisms (”tyflocracy”, “based”, etc.).

I think that overall there is a sense that we are in uncharted waters. This is all new. The “normalcy bias” is wearing off and people are asking “Where am I?” and struggling to find words to describe our current situation.

[Verginius Rufus]

Typhlos is the regular Greek word for "blind." It's the term used of the blind man in Mark 8.22.

Liddell & Scott derive typhlos from typho, "to raise a smoke," "to smoke out," "to consume in smoke."

I don't see why this neologism isn't spelled "typhlocracy." Greek phi is usually transliterated as "ph," not as "f."