Monday, July 1, 2013

Hero Worship and Authoritarianism

Hero worship is a necessary prerequisite for the establishment and maintenance of authoritarian systems.

Trashing other people's heroes while promoting your own is a classic form of propaganda used by those intent on replacing one authoritarian system with another, or -- more commonly -- by those who seek to acquire the levers of power within an established authoritarian system.

Authoritarian systems cannot be sustained absent heroes and heroic figures from the past.

Thus I tend to be skeptical of anyone promoting heroes and hero worship.

They are in the business of establishing or sustaining authoritarian systems.

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