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#9 – Sacrifice & Oppression at the Dawn of Tyranny

The Martyr Made Podcast

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A Thousand Years of Tyranny

The resort to fachism and the designation of a sacrificial victim restored harmony within the german national com. The lesson is that communities threatened with dissolution very often resort to authoritarian or totalitarian rulers. People who managed to emerge from civil war almost invariably deify the leader who pulled them out of it. And they experienced the establishment of a new social order as a kind of salvation. An old arab saying has it that a thousand years of tyranny is preferable to a single day of anarchy.

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