This article was originally published by Brandon Smith at Alt-Market.com
The question often arises in liberty movement circles as to how we get to the point of full blown tyranny within a society. There are numerous factors that determine this outcome, but through all the various totalitarian systems in history there are common denominators – elements that must be there for tyrants to prevail. When we can identify these common elements in an objective manner, we make it far more difficult for despotic structures to stand.
This is a very complex issue, but I’ll break it down as best as I’m able…
The Psychology Of The Tyrant
To come to terms with how tyrants control society, we must first examine how the mind of a tyrant operates, because these people do not in most cases think the way average human beings think. It is one of the few cases in which I would encourage people to “otherize” another group. Tyrants are psychologically abnormal to such an extreme that is is difficult to classify them as human.
I believe the key to understanding the motivations of tyrants and where these people come from rests on our understanding of narcissistic sociopathy. I wrote about this extensively in my article ‘Global Elitists Are Not Human,’ so I will only give a summary here.
Narcissistic and sociopathic traits, like many psychological traits, are inborn. They are present in about 5% to 10% of any society at any given time. In the vast majority of cases, these traits remain “latent” and do not affect a person’s actions or relationships to a great extent. In a minority of cases, however, narcissism and sociopathy become the defining factors of a person’s psyche. This occurs in less that 1% of a population.
To be clear, not all narcissists are sociopaths and not all sociopaths are narcissists. There are people who are low level narcissists who excel in society and retain a conscience. There are low level sociopaths in society that serve important functions in careers that empathetic people would find difficult, such as certain jobs in the military, or in the medical field. What I am referring to here are HIGH LEVEL narcissistic sociopaths – the kind of people that become murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and yes, tyrants.
A sociopathic narcissist is motivated by personal desire only. They are incapable of empathy for others and see people as a kind of food and fuel source rather than fellow travelers in life. They consider their lack of conscience as an evolutionary advantage; a tool that helps them to survive and thrive by trampling, stealing, manipulating and killing if necessary without guilt or regret.
You would think these creatures would be easy to pick out in a crowd, but it is not always so simple. They have the ability to mimic behaviors of those around them in order to appear more human. Sometimes this does give them away because they can’t help but parrot or steal behaviors and mannerisms from people they meet to the point of obviousness. For those inexperienced with narcissistic sociopaths, though, the tactic works for a time, because what people think they see is someone just like them; a reflection. Imagine it as a survival mechanism, like a chameleon.
For some tyrants, the ability makes them endearing to the public for a time. They can be many things to many groups, and their ability to lie convincingly is exceptional. They climb the ladder of success quickly, and build systems that allow them to prosper. They do have doubts and weaknesses, though.
They are in most cases cowardly. They prefer to get what they want through subversion and trickery, and they run from direct confrontation. They prefer to use other people (useful idiots) as weapons or shields rather than risk facing off with their ideological opponents. As parasites, they focus on the weak minded or the fragile.
They desperately want admiration from the very people they victimize. Therefore, they are constantly forced to play roles in order to appear normal. They do not like this. They feel that it is below their station in life to pander, and they are convinced that they should be worshiped as they are, not worshiped for the fraudulent image they have constructed. They want to “come out of the closet,” in a sense, as a narcissistic sociopath, but if they do under a stable social climate they will be shunned or burned at the stake. They sometimes band together for protection, and are willing to work with each other as long as there is mutual benefit.
Thus, these “people” seek to create chaos, and then to reorder society to act more like they act, or think more like they think. When the masses have been convinced to abandon conscience, then the monsters can come out into the light of day without fear.
Here is how they achieve this goal, and how average people help them do it…
False Assumptions
Almost all bad situations start with false assumptions based on bias rather than facts or evidence. The most dangerous assumption when it comes to tyranny is to say “we are in the right, therefore we are not supporting tyranny.” The question that needs to be asked, though, is are they really “right” according to the facts? If the answer is “no,” then they are probably fueling a tyrannical system.
First and foremost, many human beings want to be “right” more than they want to be correct. That is to say, they are happy to “win” arguments and conflicts regardless of whether or not the truth is on their side. This bias is the root of many catastrophes in history.
This is not to say that they don’t have a conscience. Most people in fact do have a conscience that tells them their assumptions are wrong, but they can still commit acts of stupidity and atrocity. This is where tyrannical manipulators tend to help them along.
Tyrants find great joy in creating all kinds of logical fallacies, mental gymnastics and morally relative sales pitches in order to convince a group of people that their wrong assumptions are right. The truth becomes foggy and evidence becomes unnecessary. In this state of mind, when individuals melt together into a mob, assumptions become cult dictates and “winning” becomes paramount. False assumptions and biases can be used to turn normal upstanding people into monsters, all because they refused to accept that their ideological position was flawed; all because they were afraid to feel embarrassed or admit they had been conned.
False Sides
The taking of sides in political discourse is natural and normal. Even when people are entirely honest about the facts on hand and agree on basic principles of human decency and freedom, they will STILL disagree on what solutions should be used to deal with the problems in front of them. This creates a spectrum within society that is ever present; it cannot be helped or avoided. Tyrants understand the basis of this spectrum and try to use it to their advantage to manipulate people away from thoughtful discourse and towards mindless conflict.
Tyrants exploit the masses more easily when people assume that corrupt political and social leaders are working for “their side” against the “other side.” Often these leaders can be bought or threatened into subservience. Tyrants then use them to drive the spectrum to the furthest opposites, until both sides adopt an attitude of zealotry.
This happens not only in politics, but in geopolitics, as entire nations are driven to war with each other by puppet presidents and governments over engineered conflicts that only ever benefit the cabal of tyrants behind the curtain.
Zealotry And False Narratives
I view zealotry as a kind of psychological disease that is actually communicable – it spreads like a virus through a culture until everyone is infected. Zealotry happens when a person embraces an ideology to the point that it overrides their personality and their soul, and they are no longer able to think clearly as an individual. This includes considering the possibility that they are on the wrong side of history and morality.
Zealotry on a mass scale depends on a number of dominoes set in succession. The threat of civil breakdown and economic suffering helps. Ideological opponents must be painted as an imminent and vile threat to the very fabric of society. In some cases they are a real and created threat (controlled opposition); in other cases they are a paper tiger meant to drive another group to support tyrannical measures.
Tyrants build false narratives. This is what they do best. They encourage people to unknowingly become villains, or they accuse innocent groups of villainy in order to sow division. They need all sides to see everyone else either as an ally or an enemy. There is no in-between. If a person does not conform to the views of the zealot, then he must be immediately treated as a threat. This causes an endless echo chamber which destroys all dissent or disagreement, no matter how rational.
Zealots operate primarily on fear, making them easy prey for tyrants. And as some nerd somewhere once said, “Fear is the mind killer; fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.”
Apathy And False Hope
More than anything else, tyrants desire an apathetic population. Apathy breeds complacency and inaction, and it also encourages delusional thinking. Apathetic people tend towards the philosophy of pacifism as a means to vindicate their own behavior, but this is merely a mask designed to hide their fear. They might fear suffering, they might fear loss, they might fear failure, but they certainly have fear, and it stops them from standing in the way of developments that they know are evil in nature and that require an aggressive response.
Apathy can also be bred into a society through the use of false hopes. Tyrants conjure scenarios in which the public is made to believe positive “change” is about to take place, usually through politics. But, there will be no change for the better beyond the cosmetic. Things only get worse. In this process of conditioning, tyrants raise up the hopes of the masses, and then dash them to the ground over and over, until the public gives up.
The problem is not that things cannot change for the better, but that the public keeps playing by the rules of a game fabricated by the very people that are causing their misery. Stepping outside the constraints of that game requires us to take matters into our own hands rather than waiting around for others to make changes for us. It requires risk. If the farce of tyranny is to ever end, all awake and aware people will have to take many risks.
I have heard it argued that tyranny is a natural and inevitable product of human society. That tyrants cannot be avoided, that they will always exist and any attempt to remove them will result in them only being replaced with other tyrants. This is the pinnacle of the pathetic mindset. It is the dark void of nihilism.
One could also argue that there is no point to washing ourselves because we are just going to get dirty again tomorrow. But these people would eventually die of disease. If tyranny is a human constant, then rebellion must also be a human constant, otherwise, humanity dies or is turned into something unrecognizable.
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Tyrants come to power because people put them in that position.
People who then bitch about it but do nothing about it and even go so far as to oppose any real attempts to remove them.
Current politics, with the Deep State filling the modernized role of Tyrant, is a perfect example.
One you are very likely to see played out this November.
That is the psychology that should be examined, the Tyrants themselves just being a result of it.
This article is a textbook description of the current Democrat Party!
Ever wonder why the Democrats attack, berate, mock and shout hate?
It is because their party platform is so outrageous it could not stand up to any reasonable debate.
A perfect description of trump.
Anonymous sounds like a libturd. No, the article is a perfect description of the 2-party system. Either party fits the description. Another good article, Brandon.
Funny how liberals think Republicans are the Nazis, yet, the Antifa is running around beating people up like the brown shirted Nazis.
I recently saw an article attacking Mike Pence calling him a “Christian Supremacist”
Calling people white supremacist is not good enough now, you have to attack their religion.
No different than attacking the 3ews of Germany in 1933?
John:
The Brown Shirts were formed to defend against the original Antifa Communists who were attacking and in some cases killing National Socialists.
What we don’t know is the tyrants weapon.
Another weapon being used against us today is hypnotism. TV hypnotizes and controls. Also WiFi signals can allow tyrants to beam words into your direction making you think a certain thought is your own, thus you act as instructed like a robot. When shopping bring a list and stick to it. Stores use this technology. You will buy things you don’t want or need or spend more than you can afford.
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B from CA you are a buffoon. Just put on your tin foil hat, that’ll solve the problem with those dang wifi signals!
DOM, B knows exactly what he’s talking about. Whose fantasy world are you from?
Deplorable ReneTard, is this more of your delusional old man tough guy act? Fat and lonely in the trailer park? Are you B’s butt-boy? These are rhetorical questions, by the way. We know the answers.
Hey D.O.M go back to your moma’s basement!
Okay, that explains a lot….. now, what the heck am I going to do with 50 pounds of candied yams…..
The opposite of these “narcissists are sociopaths” are the inherently trusting who have a need to believe in something. Group think is important to them. Conversely while it also might be considered anti-social because “normal” is following the majority, its far more prudent to distrust any power institution regardless of their professed benevolence. Even if the institution passes general muster the individuals within it imply that scrutiny is still required. Over time, its a shame that the idealistic naive faith that is so comforting becomes out of necessity largely replaced with skepticism and caution as one learns life’s lessons.
How tyrants control people:
1) Control the healthcare – Obamacare – Check
2) Control the housing – HUD – Check (got to keep the slaves on the plantation)
3) Control the food – EBT – Check
4) Control through debt – Check – (how many of you have a mortgage, car note, or student loans?)
5) Control through disarmament – in progress – gun control
6) Control through indoctrination – liberal programing in schools
7) Control through public narrative – Ever say anything conservative on Facebook, you will be belittled, insulted and ridiculed. Message: shut the fuck up.
Everything a tyrant is, and everything a tyrant does is completely within what it means to be human. We are all potentially capable of such things, either on a large scale or on a small scale. To say that a tyrant is not a human being is like saying a raccoon that dominates other raccoons is not a raccoon. But whether a raccoon is a raccoon is not determined by whether it dominates other raccoons, but by the fact that it is a raccoon genetically. Same with humans. People are human if their genes are human genes. To separate them out solely because of behaviors that we don’t like is a form of denial. It’s better to understand that tyrants are human and that although humans are capable of being tyrants, humans are also capable of preventing tyrants from coming to power, and, when they do come to power, we are capable of disempowering them, and some of these disempowering abilities are the same abilities possessed and employed by tyrants. The traits possessed by tyrants are human traits, and they can serve useful purposes which are sometimes beneficial or even necessary to the survival of human populations, as history has clearly demonstrated. Failure to understand this is a serious error. This does not mean that I generally approve of tyrants or support them. I don’t. But I do recognize that a man is a man not because of what he does but because his genes are characteristically human genes.
This to me has been the best article I have read.
You are absolutely right they run like Jack Rabbits when in direct confrontation.
But it gets me how these small minorities all manage to run things?
I hope that some of you responsible grownups take your cell phones, and Ipads out of your children/young adults hands and have them read this article, or at least plant the seeds of maybe change in them if they are not awake…………..
Because this will make you aware, and conscious to the reality.
Thanks Brandon for this article
Tyrants are not stupid. they plan and set goals to place themselves in positions of authority. They become Cops ,teachers , bosses, Preachers, judges lawyers elected officials ect. That’s why most folks that end up in those positions are real assholes. Only assholes want to boss and control other folks.The hollwierd crowd thinks that they are somehow superior to everyone else and become tyrannacial assholes. Look at Moonbeam Brown in Calif he is a first class asshole.
Old Guy, agreed. There’s a solution for assholes called bullets. That’s what it’s coming to.
There was a group Of tyrannical assholes who kept the prettiest girls for themselves. Killed and cut the hearts out of their loyal subjects and where revered as gods. Eventually their subjects just up and left. Wandered off into the jungle and left them to die. They where the Mayans
The problem is, most people just want to be left the f–k alone to go about their business.
The tyrants, and there are many big AND petty ones, constantly want you to do things their way and will not let you alone until you do.
As long as I am harming no one (except maybe myself) they have no right to tell me what to do. It’s called life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The tyrants will eventually take your life if you refuse to submit. They have no conception of freedom…because “law”.
And “law” is what they make to convince the people you are wrong to believe in freedom and you should be punished for not obeying them.
JRS, agreed. That’s why the only solution for tyrants is the ‘cartridge box’.
“Bread and Circuses” was the combination that destroyed the Roman Republic and brought the Caesars into power. Provide cheap distractions and hold down food prices if you can. Still works.
Rome was an empire not a republic
This article describes perfectly the 5 biggest public tyrants of the past 40 years in position to advance the tyranny. #5 Slick Willy Clinton, #4 Henry Kissinger, #3 George W. Bush, #2 Dick Cheney, and the biggest tyrant of them all #1 George H. W. Bush who was the most instrumental in bringing about the present day police state nightmare leading into financial collapse. All the above are of the same mindset and are enemies of mankind being murderers for the NWO. That they are all still alive proves that justice is dead.
responsibility = power
People become easily controlled by tyrants, through their conveniences.
“The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins.” – Soren Kierkegaard
The article begins with false premises.
First, psychiatry is NOT a valid medical science but a pseudoscience like Phrenology.
Don’t believe me?
Where is the evidence that tissue is diseased in a human body that isindicative of mental illness? There are none.
What tests conclusively PROVE any mental illness exists? There are none.
What drugs treat mental illness for the medium or long term? Based on what evidence? There are none.
What counseling cures mental illness? There is none.
What a conundrum!
Assuming that sociopathic or psychopathic folks exist, together they allegedly comprise about 2-3% of the American populace.
Narcassism is so POORLY defined as to be impossible to quantify. But if you accept psychiatry data, the incidence rate in America is 6.2%
Now you have wide disagreement in diagnosis with some claiming either or both conditions so you cannot just add them together as sociopaths and psychopaths both have narcissistic aspects in their disorder.
This is a public forum. I cannot say what I really think or plan for the future. That is tyranny. I fear the very society that I live in. It is full of sick animals in positions of power.
It is called life, it is the way it is, has been, and always will be.
In an ideal world all socialists, democrats, Moslems, and other perversions of freedom would be dead, but that is not the way it works.
Go Galt as soon as you can and just give up on them.
Trump is America’s Hitler
Imagine a world where psychiatry is discredited as there is no evidence of mental illness nor the efficacy of treating alleged medical conditions.
Depressed people are no longer depressed…they’re just perpetually sad people who need coping skills. They need fresh air, exercise, and a mentor.
Manic – Depression is no longer an illness. They just are unbalanced undisciplined people who need a mentor.
Sociopaths are wannabe criminals and psychopaths are criminals. I doubt you can help them as they will always try to rip off folks or harm them.
Schizophrenia is no illness, just wildly out of control folks who never adapted in childhood. If you look in history, a d extraordinary amount were famous artists.
No one can be a tryant unless they convince gullible souls to support their weird dominant ideas. One man is a tyrant, but millions do the dirty work. Who is to blame?
The shocking actual history of Psychiatry. They do not want you to know because it’s a giant scam making trillions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II96QkZaz1E
Even psychiatrists will admit there is no proof, no diagnostic testing, no cures, no evidence that medium or long term medication helps, no evidence that counseling does anything, etc.
There is no rhyme or reason on diagnosis. One psychiatrist, and they are allopathic physicians, may diagnose one disorder while another may say something totally different. It is totally unlike any other branch of allopathic or osteopathic medicine.
The term chemical imbalance is a bizarre paradigm without a shred of evidence.