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https://alt-market.us/understanding-the-tyrannical-mind-and-how-it-operates/

Understanding The Tyrannical Mind And How It Operates

All people seek to control their environment to a certain degree. They
want a reliable level of management over their world, and to remove
whatever doubts they might have about their survival in the future. If
they can, people will take measures to remove any potential pain or
struggle and establish a life of perpetual comfort. The easy road is
the dream for most, and in order to get it human beings see power as a
formidable tool.

I’m exploring this common condition because I want to make it clear
that almost ALL PEOPLE desire power to a degree. Sometimes this even
means controlling the actions of others to prevent them from
disrupting the oasis of comfort we construct around us. Sometimes
there are destructive people that we feel we are forced to inhibit and
cage in self defense. And still other times, we try to control those
around us out of irrational fear.

The tyrannical mindset is not exclusive to the Stalins, Maos and
Hitlers of history, it is a deep rooted shadow that lurks in the
majority of us at times. It is this condition that political tyrants
try to exploit to their advantage, because no authoritarian government
can ever be successful without the help of millions of little tyrants
supporting them. They find a way to feed our desire for control and
predictability while simultaneously enslaving us.

The point is, tyrants need us. We all have a little dash of tyranny in
our souls; we are linked, but we are different.

This is not to say that order in itself is evil or that social
structures are inherently oppressive. People need boundaries because
not all people are good or sane; some are vicious, some are lazy, some
are crazy, some are incompetent and some are dishonest and they drag
the rest of us down. Anarchy is not the solution, but neither is
totalitarianism. It’s all about who sets the boundaries and how.

This is where we uncover a specific human element that is obsessively
attracted to control, not because they are afraid, and not because
they want comfort, but because they enjoy the feeling of power. They
are addicted to it. I’m speaking specifically about narcissists,
sociopaths and psychopaths; they are members of our species but they
are lacking the key psychological traits that make us human, such as
empathy, conscience, imagination, love and shame. In almost every case
of government gone wrong it is because these types of people were able
to slither into positions of authority and take advantage.

Despite the exaggerated depictions in movies and TV, your average
psychopath is not all that complex or interesting – The fact of their
existence is interesting, but as people they tend to be boring. The
idea of them is fascinating because they are a biological anomaly, an
evolutionary mistake or maybe a spiritual deformity. Around 1% of any
given population is prone to psychopathy and an even smaller
percentage are high functioning psychopaths that are adept at hiding
their monstrous natures.

Most average psychopaths eventually end up in prison or involved in an
endless succession of life failures. They can’t get it together and
maintain relationships and build a normal life because they are too
self obsessed and dangerous and eventually the people around them
notice. These types of people are what I would call the “little
tyrants.” They seem to rise to the surface of society when times are
desperate; when people are distracted by crisis is when psychopaths
feel it’s safe to show their true natures.

For example, during the covid pandemic lockdowns and the government
attempts to introduce draconian vax mandates the little tyrants were
everywhere. They just appeared out of the ether and swirled around the
authoritarian vortex like it was a feeding frenzy. They took pleasure
in the opportunity to order others around about masks and vaccines and
“social distancing,” even though none of these measures made ANY
difference whatsoever to the spread of covid or the rather minor
median Infection Fatality Rate of 0.23%.

They were being tossed scraps from the table of power and they savored
every minute of it. The real science wasn’t on their side, but they
didn’t care; the media and the government were on their side and
that’s all that mattered. They were happy to be used as weapons
against other citizens that just wanted to be free.

Beyond the symbiotic (or maybe parasitic) relationship between big
tyrants and little tyrants, there are a set of standards that have to
be met for tyranny to be successful:

Destruction Of Choice

At the core of tyranny is the removal of choice. Centralization is all
about eliminating options for the public while telling them their
lives will be streamlined, easier and safer. If people have options
outside the establishment system or ideology then they might question
the validity of the power structure. They might ask themselves “What
if there is a better way than this?”

And, since there is always a better way than fear and slavery, tyrants
have to engage in a constant war with all alternative ideas and
principles. The only way they can be sure that people won’t rebel
someday is to erase the existence of choice. Not only that, but they
have to convince the masses that to even suggest another choice is
sacrilegious and dangerous. The system must become absolute in all
things and in every area of daily life.

Create A False Moral Paradox

Freedom is slavery – Ignorance is strength. It’s the old Orwellian
paradox that perverts the meaning of words and deeds to justify
tyranny. An extension of this twisted way of thinking is the religion
of the “greater good”; the idea that all evils are justified as long
as the “greater good” is accomplished. But what is the greater good?
It’s anything the tyrants say it is; usually anything that helps them
to gain more power. One would think that a “good” that is “greater”
would entail more freedom and less fear, not less freedom and more
fear.

As a part of the tactic of removal of choice, tyrants often create a
fake moral conundrum in which people are told that their freedom is
actually harmful to others, therefore their freedoms must be taken
away “for the greater good.” Again, the covid medical tyranny
experiment was built completely around this argument. What if your
choice to not wear a mask, to not stay locked in your house and to not
take a questionable vaccine harmed hundreds or thousands of others?
Doesn’t that justify taking your choices away? These claims are
complete fantasy, of course, but in the heat of a national panic
people can be led to believe that the false paradox is real.

Obsessive Compulsive Expansion

As noted, tyrants are usually psychopathic personalities, and a part
of this mindset is the compulsion to expand and devour. Like a growing
amoeba, or that creature from the movie ‘The Blob.’ Their hunger for
control is never sated, they will always want more.

People will be told that they are only losing one freedom, or two
freedoms, or that their freedoms will be restricted “for a short
time.” This is always a lie. Once tyrants gain new power they will
hold onto it obsessively as if it is oxygen and without it they might
die. And, then they will seek more powers because what they have is
never enough. A friend of mine once described it this way:

Piled before the tyrant is a feast of kingly proportions, like a
Thanksgiving Day feast flowing across his dinner table. You sit
quietly without access to the table, but in your hands you do hold a
little crust of bread. This is all you have and you cradle it
carefully because it must be made to last. And even though the
tyrant’s belly is full and he has more than he could possibly ever eat
in a lifetime, all he can think about is YOUR little crust.

All he wonders about day and night is why you have that crust when it
should be his. He grinds his teeth frothing in desperation for your
meager meal. Then one day he decides he will not stop until your bread
crust is in his hands while you starve. This is now his mission in
life – To take your crust and crumbs and leave you with nothing. Any
other outcome would be unimaginable.

He not only wants to steal your crust, but he wants to see your
despair when he does it. He wants you to know he has your last meal,
and he wants to see the pain in your face when he takes it away. Then,
he wants you act like you love him for it.

This is how the mind of a psychopath works. Why do their brains
function this way? There are many theories but no one really knows for
certain. The majority of evidence suggests that they are actually born
the way they are; with no conscience and no counterbalance to the
madness.

The bread crust story is a metaphor, but it illustrates how
psychopathic authoritarians view various freedoms – They are pieces of
life that tyrants cannot tolerate you having in your possession. It
drives them insane to know you have that little spark of light and joy
in your hands and they scheme and plot and scream and wail and claw
until they can get it away from you.

Tyranny Cannot Be Defeated Unless It Is Understood

There will be people out there that make the common ignorant argument
that all of this is an exercise in futility because it doesn’t
“address solutions.” There are many solutions to authoritarian
systems, I have been writing about them for over 16 years now. We can
talk all day about decentralization and localism and organization and
revolution, but none of that matters unless we understand how our
enemies think and the tactics they use. If we do not know them we
cannot defeat them.

They are not complex and they are not necessarily ingenious but they
are relentless and their simple methods can sometimes be very
effective. Underestimating their obsession with control would be
disastrous. That said, the one thing they value more than power is
their own lives, and (if we're going to address solutions) until these
people are made to understand that their lives could be the cost of
their compulsions they will never stop. There is no reasoning with
them. There is no diplomacy or compromise. There is no middle ground.
They will continue to take until the losses they face outweigh the
gains of treachery. Knowing their mindset brings us several steps
closer to shutting them down.