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Kings All The Way Down

New Polity

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Is There a Demagogue?

Aristotle says that once you get this individualist society, where they've turned against the family, is that it inevitably turns into a demagogue. So when you say the citizens are, it's against the citizens, like the regime is against the citizens. It doesn't take long before he, before he becomes an outright, or attempts to become an outright tyrant. The tyrannical apparatus treats human beings as instruments. And so that at some point you're so desperate for the human good, which is an essential aspect of that happiness, which is always social. That you will choose the slavery.

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