He's not wrong tbh. That's why people always gotta pay attention to politics because politics ain't going to leave you alone no matter how much you ignore it.
I loath politics and politicians but there is a profound distinction between apathy and antipathy. Our current political system is corrupt, as described by Aristotle, and I feel a deep antipathy towards it. The road to Hell is paved with their good (ideological) intentions.
I agree. I know here in the US, we basically have a choice between two different parties, the independent parties are not normally strong enough to really be contenders for most powerful offices. Both parties seem to be dominated by people with extreme views either on the left or right. Yet, most people probably don't share extreme views to the left or right, and thus find themselves (or at least I do) picking the party or politician that is the most tolerable.
Most so called democracies are regrettably just tyrannical governance, prevailing demonstrations are sign of injustices, imbalances so curiously characteristic of tyranny.....
It is and it's not...as a Greek I know a looot about ancient greece and the ancient world...people forget we are the EXCACT same..just with more technology
@@sir2657hello Sir. I have discovered that many YT channels hold/block based on keywords. If you get creative with your spelling, you will find the lock & key.
Yep, here in Canada. I served in our infantry and deployed to Afghanistan in 2007. This isn't the same country as what I served for. I weep for my Brothers who died there for they sacrificed for nothing.
Lol you served the same Canada, the point was to secure the opium fields for CIA heroin trade nothing more. There's a reason they had to replace it with fentanyl. Sorry ZOGbot but this is the future you fought for.
Wealth is always siphoned out of a nation through usury by the central banking systems. So long as your nation has a central bank, it is run by that system. You are not free.
How, to "go on..."? Folks, they have CHOSEN. Do you understand, that if they had their way, you would NOT HAVE A CHOICE?? How can "co-existence", EVER APPLY, when the "They", is bound to destroy your freedom, and eventually, you?? Diplomacy?? Compromise?? Words for Defeat, my good people. Democracy, is a garbage word. The closest thing We have to freedom, is a Representative Republic. Those, who have been "selected" to serve, in far too many cases, were nothing but shills for the Banksters.... What needs done, is a return to COMMON LAW, LAW OF THE LAND. The reason: These PIRATES, who use admiralty law(Ever notice the US Flag with the Gold Fringes), to commit FRAUD against We, the People, who were ONLY EVER TO BE RULED BY COMMON LAW. The LAWLESS 14th Amendment, LAWLESSLY "created" a new class, the "US CITIZEN", in direct contradiction, to what the Constitution had provided. So many "acts", and "amendments", that have GROSSLY INSUFFICIENT CONSTITUTIONAL BACKING, are now considered status quo, that the UNITED STATES SERVICE CORPORATION, IS DE FACTO. What is it called, when you tell half-truths, or deceptions, and it costs someone else, their money?? FRAUD. What is it, when you tell half-truths, or deceptions, and it costs someone else, their life? MURDER. Guess what? The UNITED STATES SERVICE CORPORATION(aka, "the Federal Government") is committing both CRIMES, EVERY DAY. IF WE HAD LAWFUL, CONSTITUTIONAL OATH-BEARING SHERIFFS, WE COULD HAUL EACH AND EVERY OFFICER, OF THE UNITED STATES SERVICE CORPORATION, WHICH IS CHARTERLESS, DUE TO ABUSE OF THE FRANCHISE, INTO COMMON LAW COURT, AND CONVICT THEM ALL, FOR BOTH FRAUD, AND MURDER. TRESPASS. These "Officers", of the UNITED STATES SERVICE CORPORATION, need to be hauled into Common Law Courts, and held liable for the Fraud, and Trespass, they have performed, upon State Nationals, of the Geographic location, known as The United States of America. US CITIZENS, are RULED, by the USC, the UCC, and the CFR. Unless you are a physical RESIDENT of Washington, D.C., OR, are a Public Servant, YOU ARE NOT A US CITIZEN, and thank the Maker you aren't, because US CITIZENS, do NOT ENJOY the Protection of Natural Law(INALIENABLE) Rights, that the Constitution of the United States of America, was Crafted to give.
@@harrysmith8338 Representative Republics have all the same failings as Democracies, just with more words to cover them up. The past 250 years have proven that.
@@harrysmith8338 I am very surprised YT didn't delete this. Mine are being taken down all the time saying this. Along with 24 hour bans too and threats of account closure. I am on a watch list. You will be soon.
A brilliant summary. One observation to add: since ~1960s there has been a concerted effort to remove the study of ancient Greek, Latin and Hebrew literature, once a mainstay of education, from the academic curriculum. This video shows why.
When Western civilization was built from Greco-Roman and Jewish values, or more precisely Hellenized Galilean Jewish values, Helleno-Judean values (the Northern Galilee of Israel is where Jesus is from and was a very Hellenized place, meaning it had much influence from Greco-Roman culture as well), then of course when we move away from these values and don't study them, we'll fall. Notice how after the dark ages, the Western and Northern Europeans re-adopted Hellenized Galilean values in a renaissance more so than Southern Europe and Southeastern Europe where that culture is more originally from? Likewise, I'm seeing many East Asian nations studying Western classics, learning Latin, studying the Jewish Talmud in their schools, etc. This is a shift of civilization towards East Asia, where they will carry on the legacy and teachings of the Western Helleno-Judean values that defined the West. I'm advising my Jewish community in NYC to move to East Asia
There has always been a force holding humanity down-sometimes stronger, sometimes weaker. Unfortunately, today it is stronger in the Western world. There is a reason schools don't teach the Greek curriculum of logic, skepticism, critical thinking, and rationality: the current system would collapse. We must either create a new system or develop robots to work for us, allowing people to pursue enlightenment. Of course, the robotic revolution will bring its own set of challenges.
@@Bittzen Why not advise them to move to Israel? That is where Jewish people are from after all. What is this obsession with living in other people's countries
It's fucking insane how smart they were. I grew up being taught "yeah some were smart but they were all barbarians who would be seen as savages today". Favourite quote "the society that separates it's scholars from it's soldiers will have it's fighting done by fools and it's thinking done by cowards" thucydides an athenian general quoted after the peloponessian war
It literally took this guy six minutes to get to the point of the video. The actual opinions of Aristotle start at 6:17 Half way into the video half of the run time is just repeating how much Aristotle knew about and felt strongly about tyrants. Tyranny is a fundamental perversion of government and padding RU-vid runtime is a fundamental perversion of documentary video.
But it's a great pity that his elemental logic, which we are forced to use ( because many countries have been duped by corrupt politicians - corporate "elite" using the Prussian model of schooling to deliberately have us "dumbed down" so we're easier to control. Ref: "Weapons of Mass Instruction" by John Taylor Gatto ) is so inadequate. personally I upgraded to Non Newtonian HOLISTIC logic, which came out around 1910 - 20 around the 'same' time as Quantum Mechanics ! Introductions of which seem to have been deleted from the Internet ??? ! ! !
I never read Aristotle's "politics" at any level of school. I think now I know why it was never offered; our elites (who run the schools) knew that exposure would mean we'd see them for the tyrants they are and I do now. I will be reading this book, good introduction!
They tyrants have entered Canada through foreign-led organizations such as the FCM and ICLEI. The key to stealing most of our money is the climate alarmism.
The only reason why the US doesn't fully belong on that list is the first and second amendments especially (though the whole Bill of Rights is important) and the government is hammering away at them every single day.
@Pemulis1 Yeah? When are we gonna use the 2nd, then? Because it's time. Do YOU have the balls, or are you just talk, like most people who seem to be perfectly comfortable in their shackles?
@@Pemulis1 Remember what Bush said about the constitution, "it's just a piece of paper". So yes the US is also a plutocracy! As Mark Twain said, 'if voting mattered, they wouldn't allow it'! Your amendments are meaningless when everything, justices, court system, politicians, etc. are corrupt!
@@Jab-vl3bw They aren't what I wish they were. but they are better than nothing. But yeah, the US is a plutocracy, and the only people that the Bill of RIghts (or what's left of it) protects are Americans. So the US government can totally mistreat non-Americans in a way it can't mistreat Americans (at least not without some risk). That aside, you make a good point.
When I heard Starmer talk of a "government of service", I recalled this quotation: "The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" Albert Camus
Yes of course. But that doesn’t mean a government of service isn’t good. That’s the purpose of government. Service. Yes, tyrants use service as an alibi just as they use the truth and justice.
@@blueoak116 I think you could have a perfectly functional dictatorship with minimal services. A raw material dictatorship can be a mine that pays for the army and a port.
@@blueoak116 Being willfully blind to the truth doesn't make you immune from its consequences. Beware the politician who promises "free" goods and services.
We're living in a global tyranny, where few are the governments that do not meet this standard. In the u.s. we have every element of tyranny, as with most of the developed world. Now there are technological tools of the tyrant that make for a level of tyranny that Aristotle never dreamed of, giving the tyrant unprecedented ability to manipulate information and public opinion as well as surveil and gather information.
Yes technology is going to make things 10x worse than ever in human history because once a dictator or one world leader gains control they can feel like they control the world and all within.
To be honest I live in what people would define a democracy and yet the truth is this video described my country politicians. They absolutely love foreigners and actively discriminate their own citizens. Tyranny is not just the rule of one man it can be an oligarchies or wealth ruled institutions.
Democracy is also a tyranny of the majority. that's why the United States was meant to be a Republic. it still is but now its a Banana Republic! and I hate bananas!
Machiavelli famously stated that a leader should strive to be both loved and feared, but if he could only choose one, then it was better to be feared than loved... but above all else, he should avoid being hated.
The tyrant surrounding himself with bodyguards is very relevant today. It seems like modern politicians increasingly view their citizens as a threat. The security surrounding modern politicians has grown massively within the last 40 years. In the 1970s it was possible to walk right up to the front door of 10 Downing Street, today the whole street is fenced off.
Indeed, the number of bodyguards HAS increased. Because threats HAVE increased. Because the politicians increasingly harm those they are entrusted to protect. And the Public is becoming increasingly aware.
massive immigration from vastly different and multiple cultures degrades the social cohesion of the native country. Trust in neighbors is no longer there when said neighbor come from tribal backgrounds and don't care about screwing you over because you have no genetic or cultural common ground. Thus as social trust become less and less, crime, scams, everyone for themselves mentality increases. This detroys peace and harmony in the country where politicains promote diversity. but they don't care because they are always shielded from said consequences
The government turned into the biggest threat against citizens in the UK. Its them funding demographic replacement, out goes George, in goes Mohammed 1, 2 , 3, 4, 5, 6.
If you guys ever wondered why western schools and universities no longer teach ancient history (Greece and Rome) well now you know! Because ancient history is basically a giant middle finger to the current ruling ideology.
Their world is a lot stranger. Like a "foreigner" means someone from the neighbouring town. I always get upset about how little we know about the bronze age city-states myself.
The problem is that western universities got away from their founding, which was Christianity. Whether it’s Oxford and Cambridge seminaries; Harvard and Princeton seminaries, etc. 195 of the first 200 US universities were founded on the Bible, which since 100 AD is the one book the tyrants must ban before getting full control.
Ancient Greek,roman,Persian,indian,chinese,Egypt all of them were wise..according to chankya,tax should be 5% max and if it is more,you are not great king..
That’s because these patterns are cyclical. Basically every society goes four cycles or turnings between crises and prosperity before repeating another cycle. The whole process is about 80 to 90 years, and then it repeats. I don’t remember if it was Aristotle or Plato that originally outlined the concept, but the late 90’s book “The fourth turning” goes into much more detail and actually predicts martial law after a pandemic, a terrorist attack to make us go to the Middle East, and several several other global agenda items. The idea starts out with a hero generation facing a crises period until they overcome the crises to create good times. The good times Spoil the youth generation so they rebel. This spoiled rebel artists generation typically does a worse job at raising there kids so you end up with social change and then the Gen X types who are more individualistic and self reliant. Political problems start to then emerge with individualism leading to more extreme and divisive Political views and growing partisanship. In American history we become the most libertarian during these periods. We either want to be more isolationist or some states or colonies start to propose declaring independence. Then some series of events unfold that lead to a war or another crisis. In US history you had the revolutionary war, the civil war, World War II, and what ever were living thru now. After the conflict starts the new hero generation steps up to handle the crisis before establishing a new good times period of prosperity. The total multi generational cycle is around 80 to 90 years and repeats because people repeat patters that they haven’t ever lived through. In Ray Dalio’s book he takes the argument one step farther and describes how the dominant world powers rise and fall over several hundred years as part of a larger cycle with multi shorter 80 year cycles within. In Ray Kurzweil’s singularity is near book he gives one long cycle for the evolution of life, dna, intelligence, technology, and then a technological singularity. Each epoch of complexity creates the next. On the one hand we are on the verge of both internal civi1 w@rs and possibly international conflicts between major nuclear powers. But at the same time we are possibly only a decade or two away from from super intelligence AI, implemented genetic engineer like Crisper, nano machines, robots, nuralink, nuclear fusion ,ect. So it could be that this will be the last normal human lifespan cycle. The kurzweil argument makes this global rise in political tyranny a possible answer to the Fermi paradox. The Fermi paradox is a question asking if there are so many stars and technology improving life had developed anywhere else in the galaxy it is likely it would have happened a lot time a go. So even at an expansion of sun light speed the entire galaxy should have been colonized by now. So the saddest hypothesis to the Fermi paradox I can think of is that on any plant where life evolves to build technology there always likely to be social animals so you can have leather teams and companies of specialists bs some super smart octopus loaner life form. And these reciting multi generation power dynamics we have might be a universal trait leading to cycles of progress and destruction among all biological technological species that can get to our level of technology. It feels like we almost need that recurring 4th generation war, but that could spiral from internal conflicts in the west to conflicts between major nuclear armed powers. But if we don’t have this conflict period that we seem to have every 80 years we could instead slip into some Orwellian population collapse nightmare. So that is my answer to the Fermi paradox. Social Biological animas that can work together to produce advanced technology need war periodically to straighten there societies out. But they always figure out nuclear, chemical, and / or biological weapons first. So to paraphrase Elon musk I think if life turns out to be common that the technological species either nuke themselves, or decay and collapse like that 1960s rat experiment if nuclear deterrence prevents there generation of crisis being handled the normal way.
@@Cant_find_good_Handle Thanks for the time and effort posting that. Some points that people would do well to consider. I did classics at school and a philosophy degree - there is much to learn from the past, for sure. Best wishes. (Edited for typo).
The US and Canada have another issue that this doesn't take into account. Their sheer size. People on the west will pretty much never travel to their respective capitals to protest or riot against anything. If a civil war were to break out it's very likely that the west coast would just block itself off from the rest of the country due to the massive natural barrier the mountains provide.
@RylanVG how is this happening in the US. I'll agree with Canada and UK, but as a American my city of a million peoole is like 90% ethnically homogenous are you a native American referring to Caucasian people perhaps?
You are saying these "foreigners" are learning English, being investigated (screened) and then complete boot camp in English 😅? The Marine Corps recruit training, recruits are transformed into the world's most elite fighting force through 13 weeks of rigorous training. Recruits will acquire the knowledge, discipline, teamwork, and fitness level required of a Marine through physical training, classroom instruction, and developing combat skills.
Now you know why many Western Universities are getting rid of Classical Greek Studies... since the word democracy is Greek, if they could, they would erase that word too....
True..."Democracy" means a few big cities with captive populations of voting multi-generational welfare recipients get to decide that your country gets conquered by a foreign horde.
I happened to have majored in Classical Studies, of which today no longer exist as a distinct academic program at my alma mater, even though the degree didn't help me get a job, it did help me really understand Western Institutions and Values, and why they are the way they are today. One thing I learned as a Classics Major is back in the 1920s and 1930s, Classical Education was embedded in the Education System, before one got to College. (Even my father who went to High School in the late 50s early 60s had to learn a little bit of Latin, before being able to study any other language.) The average educated person knew about Greek and Roman Myths, History, and even Latin and Ancient Greek to a degree. In fact, my final exam for Intro to Ancient Greek, included a College Entrance Exam Translation Passage, where a University Candidate had to be able to translate it into English, as part of the overall Entrance Exam.
@@AmericanScholar82 Now try asking your average college student today anything about ancient history. Human history only started after the french revolution according to those people.
People often mock me for my obsession with history, however it is exactly why I don't fall for propaganda. It always follows the same patterns as historical events
@@davidb9779Trumps one of many. Besides, tyranny usually comes from leaders using socialism as a sort of trojan horse. Tyrants don’t usually side with the rich as trump does until after the people have been converted
@davidb9779 your statement by itself shows that you've fallen for propaganda. You picked and supported a side instead of criticizing the system which allows both current parties to exist the way they are. Pity.
@ginagee8737 it's not a presumption. It's in their comment. They isolated a single side and asked a leading question for a problem that's larger than Trump/Kamala or left/right. My comment also wasn't directed at you?
Don’t forget the bread and circuses. Pay Entertainers and athletes ridiculously high salaries to distract the population. Allowing them to believe that they personally gain something from a winning team.
Once you’ve started on the quest of emancipating your mind, you tend to see those endeavours (modern entertainment) as frivolous and a waste of your precious time. Misdirection is a classic magician’s trick
While I agree with what you are saying I don't think living an unhappy grinding life is not healthy. a good balance is always needed and there's nothing wrong with indulging in pleasure frequently with discretion. @@Yazz2014
The U.S. Founders read and understood the classic philosophers like Aristotle. They were more profoundly learned than the vast majority of the U.S. populace, now. That's why they bestowed upon us a Constitution, sound money like gold, and no standing army. This is why we have 3 branches of government that can check-mate each other. The U.S., itself, was and is the answer to "democracy" and tyranny.
@@rubies200 The founding fathers would be ashamed if they could see what we've become. I like to think about what they would have done differently if they could see this gross perversion of our great republic.
Not really lmao They’re the two most important subjects, but not the most important classes. Why? Because in class the only history you’ll Learn is MUH BLACK SLAVERY
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.” ― Alexander Fraser Tytler
This isn't true for conservatives, they wan't a booming and fair economy, not free money from the treasury. The problem is self made in our case, the left is creating new conditions, to make your statement come true, but this isn't necessarily an inherent flaw of the system democracy. If there is one inherent problem, it's humanity itself, we will always create problems, and if the scale is as big as in modern nation states (or even international globalism) things will escalate quite a lot. So better buckle up.
@@LeoPlaw “Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.” - Aristotle And eventually one might add that Tyranny may give way to masculine republics.
If you haven't read it, I recommend Sir John Glubb's essay, The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival. Taking several civilisations as examples he outlines how they all go through the same cycle of rise and fall independent of how they arose or how they end. Humanity really does repeat itself. Endlessly. Why don't civilizations learn from history? Hubris?
How important it is to have a well rounded edition in the classics. The majority of our youth have been denied this and as a result, thinking is foreign to them.
Because parents are dumb. Parents want their kids to learn economics, classics etc but there’s not enough time or resources in the curriculum. If you care so much then teach it to them yourselves. Teach them how to value learning. I was taught Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and classical civilisation history. What did that do for me? Absolutely nothing, and I’m smart. So most students will get nothing out of it either.
@@tomocchii Parents are being kept too poor in time to teach thier children properly. And additionally, what learning time remains between parents and thier offspring is cluttered with busy homework that exhausts thier minds and thier time in the day further. What the current school system teaches is a hate for learning and the use of ones mind by making it overwhelming and boring.
And the US. Any society that’s flooded by migrants in the later stages of tyranny. Such as the end of the Roman Republic, which kept importing slaves that displaced the native Roman population from their jobs. Leading to the rise of Julius Caesar.
It's relevant in a lot of the Western world, I dare say there's a singular key petty tyrant in the shadows, perhaps the British colony power is stronger than we realise, even over its rebellious child USA
It's kinda crazy how a philosopher from ancient greece perfectly nailed all the aspects of dystopian tyranny thousands of years before the rest of the world truly began figuring it out and defining it in the 20th century. Aristotle would have likely enjoyed having a conversation with Orwell.
The modern Republic came from the Enlightenment which came from the Reformation which came after the Renaissance which was a rediscovery and democratization of ancient knowledge both from the Bible and the Classics.
@@WellbeingToPeace your response is in response to God's proverb. IF we'd all read the Bible and follow His ways designed for us we'd be better off. America almost got it right, 'In God We Trust.' But now man has replaced God and He's letting us destroy ourselves...not His choice for His creation.
"Randy" is the name of a friend of a friend of mine. Insofar as I know, Randy hasn't been in Britain. I would advise him not go. Randy HAS been in Australia, and Randy and my friend suffered a very awkward situation that ended well, but could have gone sideways. Unlike in Britain, so it seems, calling someone Randy, someone hearing you call someone Randy, being Randy, won't get you arrested in Australia, just embarrassed. In Britain, arrested and embarrassed. (Note to self. Don't travel to Britain with anyone named Randy.)
Because the foreigner has no love for his new home, wants something closer to his old home, and a change of environment doesn't mean a change of values
I 100% agree with you. However, I'd like to ask you if you think that "good" foreigners exist? Like, I'm from a country in South America and I absolutely despise it here, not only the socioeconomics but the culture and values as well. However, I admire North American culture A LOT and I'm 100% willing to give up most of my native values and fully Integrate into a new country. Do you think that such a thing is possible? Also, If I were to migrate to another country, I want to do it LEGALLY.
@@DioTheGreatOne Well yes, legal immigration is generally a strong indicator that you are coming here to be American. I've met people of Hispanic/latino descent that had "American" names, and even had regional accents (like southern, for instance).
@@eddardgreybeard Thanks for answering! since I also see myself as leaning right and conservative, I sometimes think I am part of the problem since I want to be an immigrant myself.
No, it's still some. The Masses are and always will be dumb and disorganised. They will follow someone, an elite. No matter how horrendous the current elite is, it will have some idiotic supporters. The key is to create a counter-elite, an organised minority to lead the disorganised majority. It wasn't the commoners of Paris that oversaw the French Revolution, it was the Revolutionary Committee It wasn't the American people that overthre British control over the colonies, It was The Continental Congress
While it may not be immediately apparent to everyone, there's a growing concern that a subtle form of control is emerging in Western societies. The tools in use-AI, corporate products, and the push for technological conveniences-aren’t entirely new, but their modern applications can obscure their true purpose. The leadership we see may not be the ones truly directing these shifts; there could be other forces, whether corporate or otherwise, guiding society for their own reasons. However, it’s important to consider how our collective desires for comfort and innovation may unintentionally support this process. The potential for this system of influence to become fully established is something worth being mindful of.
the key observation of Aristotle (and Augustine) is that tyranny can exist in any form. It need not be a single leader, but a "representative" form of government can be tyrannies. The tyranny of the democracy is perhaps the worst because people can feel morally superior while working to destroy their own nation or state.
@@cabnbeeschurgr6440Lenin founded the Soviet Union and said “Democracy is indispensable to socialism” If you make a people into a democracy they will vote themselves into dependency. The fall of Rome began when it became a democracy. Ayn Rand said the only difference between Socialism and Communism is that people willingly vote themselves into slavery with Socialism as opposed to Communism where they’re forced into it. Karl Marx said the goal of socialism is communism. Notice how for the past few years, world leaders have been screaming for “global democracy”?
"Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it" - Pericles "If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism." - Thomas Sowell
Ah yes, I understand your situation, I'm speaking from New UK, soon to be renamed Britainistan, no doubt. I hope our glorious leader won't have an accident, it would be terrible if he fell down some stairs, or off a balcony, or out of a window. Just terrible
Yes. Totalitarianism: Global Tyranny... Which is where this world is heading. And technology is enabling this... Aristotle wouldn't of observed this probably because populations back then were smaller and more dispersed perhaps but what he described is the same methods but on 'steroids' which we have all the necessary ingredients and conditions for now days...
@@burtknighten4438 Poland is governed by non-polish PM and licks USA arse on every foreign policy there is, no international autonomy but lapdog barking and following
UK, and US for sure. We STILL have the backlash of the patriot act, and our memory has grown so short. We the people, need to return to subsistence lifestyles, and remove the pressures of relying on government. Culture will return as a result.
Not bad. I'd say a big reason why tyrants' successors don't do well is because tyrants don't surround themselves with good people, they usually surround themselves with people who are even less competent than they are because I think insecurity plays a huge part in being a tyrant. So you're only going to get a lesser character taking over their chores. Like you said, 'degenerates'. But that isn't ever by accident.
Not only that. Inherited Tyrannies tend to either be handed down via blood which you get successors who have no idea what it takes. Or you get those who inherit it by subterfuge and violence which opens up the legitimacy for it to be taken by the same means. Kristos or "To the strongest" was the words that shattered the Macedonian Empire.
This is not just about Kier! The rot has been active for decades and everyone just ignored it. All of governmental institutions are riddled with it, a cancer that destroys everything in it's path.
I see parallel in the present Canadian Government! Canada has the highest tax burden in the world and the average citizen has not benefited from it. We have 33 trillion dollars in raw resource but the average Canadian is suffering. e.g. diamonds, gold, LNG, oil, potash, fresh water, etc.
Same here in Russia with the amount of natural resources. But hey, history repeats itself. We're paying for our war machine since like... The foundation of this country?..
What's worse is the circuses are now at home via electronics. People now not only get to become brainwashed in their own living rooms but they get to become fat, dumb, uninformed, and apathetic also.
Hypocrisy in that flag brother. Russia literally has a Tsar,,instead of nobility this one came from the communist KGB hardliners. The new tsar, appoints who will be oligarchs & he also can take away that status. There is no protest or free speech in Russia. It’s an informational autocracy with its state media apparatus. It’s an eight year prison sentence for calling a war a war. That’s very dystopian. Wise Russian sage said “it is the slaves that make tyrants.” When Russia was a monarchy, it would go to war to protect ALL Slavs, that’s why they entered the first World War, now, this Nova-Russia is the largest murder of Slavs. Deny it say whatever propaganda you want, but remember this history is not going to buy the propaganda and judgment will be harsh. Modern Russia has made it and trees into the annals of history as a stain consisting of ash & blood. God bless you have a nice day, brother .
Естественно, потому что у вас в Канаде коммунисты! Как и в Англии прямо сейчас. Коммунисты это зло. А то что у тебя на аватарке флаг очередной коммунистической помойки, так это вообще кринжатина.
I feel like the sheer scale and power of modern empires would frighten a man like him. Imagine global destruction at your fingertips, imagine if someone like Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar had access to such power...
@@blastard8980 Tyrants repress information, they don't encourage sharing it. Propaganda, sure, but consider how this video could be propaganda, and if so, what is it's purpose?
I've long felt that everything we humans would ever need to learn in order to live good lives in good societies has already been written and taught long ago and then forgotten time and time again. There is far less need to discover or invent than there is a need to remember and preserve.
The 'human' race is deeply flawed and not able to learn the lessons and use that knowledge to free themselves. Greed and selfishness are a cancer that permeates everything and is a constant force of destruction.
Humans can change their actions to accommodate flaws though. To pretend we can't do better and just throw our hands up as if "well why bother, we're going down anyway" is asinine when you can grab a life boat. People "resigning to fate" is the weak man's approach. The people not acknowledging their weakness and the fact they've been fooled into complying with idiots, and instead doubling down on those same faults because the alternative is to admit they are stupid to not have noticed they were stupid, and now willfully stupid when it is pointed out to them and they refuse to acknowledge it out of fear/shame of accountability in their part in allowing themselves to be weak, is far greater to them than actually surviving and thriving.
That’s because these patterns are cyclical. Basically every society goes four cycles or turnings between crises and prosperity before repeating another cycle. The whole process is about 80 to 90 years, and then it repeats. I don’t remember if it was Aristotle or Plato that originally outlined the concept, but the late 90’s book “The fourth turning” goes into much more detail and actually predicts martial law after a pandemic, a terrorist attack to make us go to the Middle East, and several several other global agenda items. The idea starts out with a hero generation facing a crises period until they overcome the crises to create good times. The good times Spoil the youth generation so they rebel. This spoiled rebel artists generation typically does a worse job at raising there kids so you end up with social change and then the Gen X types who are more individualistic and self reliant. Political problems start to then emerge with individualism leading to more extreme and divisive Political views and growing partisanship. In American history we become the most libertarian during these periods. We either want to be more isolationist or some states or colonies start to propose declaring independence. Then some series of events unfold that lead to a war or another crisis. In US history you had the revolutionary war, the civil war, World War II, and what ever were living thru now. After the conflict starts the new hero generation steps up to handle the crisis before establishing a new good times period of prosperity. The total multi generational cycle is around 80 to 90 years and repeats because people repeat patters that they haven’t ever lived through. In Ray Dalio’s book he takes the argument one step farther and describes how the dominant world powers rise and fall over several hundred years as part of a larger cycle with multi shorter 80 year cycles within. In Ray Kurzweil’s singularity is near book he gives one long cycle for the evolution of life, dna, intelligence, technology, and then a technological singularity. Each epoch of complexity creates the next. On the one hand we are on the verge of both internal civi1 w@rs and possibly international conflicts between major nuclear powers. But at the same time we are possibly only a decade or two away from from super intelligence AI, implemented genetic engineer like Crisper, nano machines, robots, nuralink, nuclear fusion ,ect. So it could be that this will be the last normal human lifespan cycle. The kurzweil argument makes this global rise in political tyranny a possible answer to the Fermi paradox. The Fermi paradox is a question asking if there are so many stars and technology improving life had developed anywhere else in the galaxy it is likely it would have happened a lot time a go. So even at an expansion of sun light speed the entire galaxy should have been colonized by now. So the saddest hypothesis to the Fermi paradox I can think of is that on any plant where life evolves to build technology there always likely to be social animals so you can have leather teams and companies of specialists bs some super smart octopus loaner life form. And these reciting multi generation power dynamics we have might be a universal trait leading to cycles of progress and destruction among all biological technological species that can get to our level of technology. It feels like we almost need that recurring 4th generation war, but that could spiral from internal conflicts in the west to conflicts between major nuclear armed powers. But if we don’t have this conflict period that we seem to have every 80 years we could instead slip into some Orwellian population collapse nightmare. So that is my answer to the Fermi paradox. Social Biological animas that can work together to produce advanced technology need war periodically to straighten there societies out. But they always figure out nuclear, chemical, and / or biological weapons first. So to paraphrase Elon musk I think if life turns out to be common that the technological species either nuke themselves, or decay and collapse like that 1960s rat experiment if nuclear deterrence prevents there generation of crisis being handled the normal way.
Don't know what It's like in other countries, but in Poland you can't cut down a tree on your own yard without permission, even If there's a risk It may fall down on your house during strong winds, you need to ask for permission first... and you might not get It. Just one small example.
I refer to bureaucrats and government as "my master". Only in a master slave relationship does the concept of "getting permission" for the most benign of activities exist. This really makes them mad when I say "Yes massa" when talking with them.
where I am in Germany we have to get permission if we want to use roof tiles other than "brick" colour. Stupidly, they change colour over time anyway. We also have similar restrictions on trees in our garden
I was close to disowning my country Sweden but have to say that we seem to have more reasonable laws in this circumstance. On our own property, we are allowed to do anything unless the area is protected (my house is protected but my yard isn't). Changing the outside of the house require written permission (installing solar is a change that won't be accepted on my house) but I/we are allowed to plant or cut almost anything that is on our land. The requirement is that you know what you're doing. Funk it up to get a fine.
I think long established trees should be protected for posterity. They add much beauty to neighbourhoods, and are good for our health and birdlife. But governments that interfere with bodily autonomy, and which oppress free speech, and which do hybrid wars on countries they don't like, which don't do what they're told, such as the collective West is doing....are tyrannical.
We've also had Christianity for the last 2000 years. It gave us dark ages, medieval ages, and the most brutal torture devices known to man. The easiest way to control people is to religiously demonize all forms of fun, and make them into workaholics afraid of hellfire.
Thats because actual education is kept out of the ‘education’ system today. When I was in US Public school I was never given Aristotle to read. I was never given any classical philosophy, or *any* philosophy more than 30 years old. I never was given any real literature to read beyond the Great Gatsby and the Outsiders, not even Shakespeare. Tyrants want you to be ignorant. If they can control your level of education they will constrict it as much as possible; and they do.
@@overman2306 Yep, right there. Wish I could give you some more likes. People are ignorant of ALL of this. Hell, most of the people here just learned about it watching this video. Hopefully it will stick in their mind and they will think about it.
The people who love the exercise of power over others are happily using the knowledge of human behavior and perception discovered in the last hundred years to redefine the reality we perceive to better subvert and control us. So SOME people learned.
Or believes itself to be too powerful. 😏 Since we are talking about humans, one of their many faults is being arrogant. (The gov fears, Nuc-EMPs, guns in the hands of civilians, any type of violent resistance. 🤣 Because their lives flash before their eyes.
GOP keeps cutting taxes for the rich and reduce funding for public programs. They created the war on drugs for citizens, but relaxed rules for the drug companies. Etc.
Aristotle considered the possession of arms synonymous with possession of political power: "when the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name -- a constitution . . . in a constitutional government the fighting-men have the supreme power, and those who possess arms are the citizens" (Book 3, ch VII).
Not really, basically the US revolution and the constitution were a restoration of English common law and rights of the Magna Carta which had been trampled on by Oliver Cromwell after the English Civil War in the mid 17th century, as well as the 1689 British bill of rights created after Cromwells regime failed. Essentially they were fighting for rights they should have already had as Englishmen. So it wasn’t exactly anything new, they just wanted their old rights back. George Washington’s family actually moved to the 13 colonies because his family were royalists, who had sided with the king and fought against Cromwell and the parliamentarians so they fled England fearing persecution after the civil war, this is an important part of why he was who he was and did what he did that is often forgotten about, why his family moved to the US in the first place, as well as the lessons learned during the English civil war that they definitely hadn’t forgotten about.
I see a ton more indirect parallels than direct ones, which tells you something about just how clever modern tyrants really are. Today in the West, it’s extremely rare to find a tyranny that centers around an individual leader/ruler/executive that appears in the headlines; more often than not, that tyrant is in fact beholden to a coalition/cabal of bureaucrats and aristocrats that hide in plain sight. Thus the tyrant himself is more like a figurehead in all but name.
“It is also a habit of tyrants to prefer the company of aliens to that of citizens at table and in society; citizens, they feel, are enemies, but aliens will offer no opposition.” -Aristotle
In the USA our life expectancy is unusually low for how much money we spend. Simultaneously, they single out foreigners from pizzpot countries to select our doctors from.
I remembered years ago my brother who I love and who is a kind and intelligent person said something terribly ignorant. He said he had no interest in politics. I never forgot it because it's the same as saying you've no interest in whether you will be able to afford a house, a holiday, food. Whether the air you breathe is poisonous or not, whether it is safe to step outside your house, whether or not your children will have a future..
READ George Orwell, particularly _Animal Farm_ and _1984_ . Even if you're afraid you don't "get it", *anything* you manage to gain from the books is still something the would-be tyrants don't want you thinking about!
I grew up in China, I saw how the state manipulates the media and the people. Now I live in EU, I see how the government and the big companies start to cooperate and doing the same. It is sad, but I think what makes the difference is that people here in Europe never lived under a authoritarian state for the last two thousand years. You can always find people who are willing to fight for their freedom. I believe, in the end, Europe wins, the people win
Probably best to brush up on modern European history, swathes of central and eastern Europe came under Soviet control post WW2, also dont forget the military dictatorships in Greece and Spain that only ended in the 1970's!
Yeah it goes to show that the Rome comparsion is actually inaccurate, the correct comparison is the greek tyrants as highlighted in the video. Hope to see more people learn about them.
“Do you see any parallels between these ancient observations and modern governments?” Now there’s a rhetorical question if I’ve ever heard one! Great video. Keep’em coming!
I find it funny all these people who think Aristotle was for individual rights and limited governments when the "citizens" whose tyranny tyrants were stomping all over was in fact an oligarchy. So he's against oligarchies, and against tyrants stopping oligarchies, apparently.
This video explained eloquently on how tyranny happens. Exact thing happened in Bangladesh. Last prime minister did those 3 things he mentioned. 1st building mega projects with the money taken as loan from foreign country, using 1/3 of the money for establishment after pocketing the rest into their own account. 2nd infiltrating all government and private institutions, bank with their own people and generating a system where people with same political view like them are recruited. And those people get special "favor" which make them loyal to the government in illusion of a secured life. 3rd killing or throwing people into jail or threatening who opposed their tyrannical activities. Which made fear among mass people leading to loss of many human rights. All those things happened for 15 years. Finally people burst out with their anger, resentment against the fascist, tyranny government.
That anger will be used by bad actors. Islamists will slowly take control of the narrative and the so called students will be dealt with. This has happened way too many times around the world to be a coincidence
@@georgedang449 Iran, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Syria etc etc. Everywhere Islamists usurped power in the name of democracy. Bangladesh is done for, students or puppets can't save it, it's only a matter of time. I really wish I'm wrong though
Yeah, I'd say the Tyranny in America and Britain is much worse, but Americans are too wuss to ever do anything about it. In fact, almost every single riot or even protest, you find out was organized by the bad guys. Why are there never any legitimate riots and protests? Cuz people never do anything unless they get paid.
This was actually very brilliant. You used Aristotle's actual examples and not just referenced Aristotle, and then try to make it relevant to today's politics, which when the latter is done by other RU-vidrs it always feels like they didn't actually read the source material and are just using the credibility of the subject in order to push their own political agenda. Whereas you use actual references and didn't deviate. I really respect this and I'm subscribing based on this one video I watched😊
