The Americans Who Long for Caesar – by Jeffery Tyler Syck
The new right views strongman rule as the medicine for our times. Here’s why they’re wrong.
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The new right views strongman rule as the medicine for our times. Here’s why they’re wrong.
Source: The Americans Who Long for Caesar – by Jeffery Tyler Syck
August 30, 2024 @ 10:24 am
As always, the elephant in the room gets ignored. Democracy, self rule, is founded on the concept of the intellectually empowered and emotionally self sufficient individual. In a culture such as ours where to be a genuine individual is considered a dangerous aberration, where the word sociopath plays as heavy as psychopath, the rise of strong man rulers is all but assured. How could it be any different when the electorate has been reared in a culture that demands a consensus of some collective to validate a personal opinion on virtually any and every subject?
Yes, the degraded and disabled state of individualism in the US means we’ll most likely wind up with some form
of “ceaseristic” government before the situation can be reversed. Me? I’m hoping the ghost of Pisistratus (from the early days of Athens) will agree to reincarnate and take the job. Word is he did a good job for the people of Athens not once but twice while they were figuring out how to make democracy work in it’s first go around.