But while it is easy to vilify dictators, we should also realise that, in many ways, we the people are the ones enabling them. After all, a dictator cannot function without followers. But abdicating personal responsibility cripples freedom of expression and derails democratic processes.
The good news is, however, that although we enable dictators, we can also disable them. In many established democracies, the descent towards dictatorship is becoming a real threat. And can we prevent dictators from assuming power? Historical experience has proven otherwise. From a clinical perspective, most psychotherapists believe that dictators with their psychopathic traits tend to be untreatable. Thus, many opposing powers are needed to address the second question on how to prevent their ascension.
Prevention is better than cure, so we need to recognise potential dictators before they stealthily compromise and destroy our lives. Once they are in power, it is often too late. A healthy democracy finds footing in a populace able to listen to different points of view and manage ambiguities. To prevent dictators from coming to the fore requires a population that cares for liberty and takes responsibility for it.
Furthermore, the government, the head of State, the legislature, the courts, the press and the electorate should all be independent to provide countervailing oversight. In the film The Great Dictator , Charlie Chaplin satirises Nazism and Adolf Hitler while playing the role of a Jewish barber who, in a case of mistaken identity, is forced to impersonate the absolute ruler of fictional Tomainia.
At the end of the film, Chaplin delivers an impassionate speech asking the populace to unite and fight against dictatorship:. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people… Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Unfortunately, we are still far from the kind of world that Chaplin described. Many of our present world leaders are making a great effort to endanger the democratic processes. Narrow-minded nationalism, xenophobia, greed and unimaginable violence is present everywhere.
It makes it even timelier to strive for the kind of world envisioned by Chaplin. Manipulative, narcissistic people who seek control over others will always be around us, whether in politics, business, unscrupulous salesmen, or even members of our own families. In the end, a tradition of democratic culture, and a stable socio-economic society, as is in the case of western democracies, are the best defense against tyranny.
A constitution is worth no more than the paper that is written on unless people have faith in its authority.
I think the population, who don't have their brains to think what's right and wrong. Just blindly following what other person is saying, an anchor, politician or any body. These ones are the reason to give their countries dictators. Blind followers! It's in fact very easy for a country, any country for that matter, to have a dictatorship.
Many potential dictators begin their career by committing some criminal acts, usually by treating the country's treasury as though it's an inheritance from their grandfather.
Besides, this the future dictator will also be committing other acts like stifling criticisms and perhaps ordering his police to subject critics to brutal attacks. Very soon he would be up to his neck with indictable criminal acts.
And so, in order to avert being held responsible for his acts, he will want to stay in power for the rest of his life and will use whatever means at his disposal to make this happen. And a dictatorship is born. Easy, isn't it? Your Privacy. For this reason, we inform you that the data collected via the form above is processed electronically for the purpose s specified in this form and will not be used outside this framework.
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Supported Browser. Latest Articles. Fighting Against Dictatorship Manfred F. Creating a responsible electorate In many established democracies, the descent towards dictatorship is becoming a real threat. Striving for a better world In the film The Great Dictator , Charlie Chaplin satirises Nazism and Adolf Hitler while playing the role of a Jewish barber who, in a case of mistaken identity, is forced to impersonate the absolute ruler of fictional Tomainia.
At the end of the film, Chaplin delivers an impassionate speech asking the populace to unite and fight against dictatorship: "You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure… In the name of democracy let us use that power; let us all unite… Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people… Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance.
The Bad Influence of Aggressive Bosses. Government by a single person, as opposed to a ruling clique. Rule tends to be maintained by intimidation, use of secret police and the armed forces, and by economic control.
These encourage the persistence of social inequalities and elitism, and halt political and social development. Some dictatorships, particularly in African nations, are based on traditional values where the structure of oppression already exists.
The dictator merely diversifies the instruments of control, strongest of which may be the emphasis on traditional values and institutions. Most dictators do not appoint delegates based on their intelligence, but rather based on their lack of intelligence, lack of character, lack of constitution and courage, as these are the people who will neither challenge nor defy a dictator's rule.
In its extreme form, dictatorship may become tyrannical, resulting in many excesses. Despotism has been recognized as a form of government since the era of classical Greek philosophy when it was applied particularly to practices in Persia and the East. Despotism has been recorded through history to modern times and found an especially vivid expression in the absolutist monarchies in France and elsewhere in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. It is currently published as a searchable online platform with profiles of world problems, action strategies, and human values that are interlinked in novel and innovative ways.
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