How To Be A Successful Tyrant

"Almost all oppression via propaganda is based upon scaring people and then presenting a false choice, where the people can choose either to do what you want them to do or face some unknown, often purely fictional, horror. This is not the method of the common thug, which is, 'do this or I will hurt you.' A successful, modern tyrant, never represents himself as the thing to be afraid of."

"You must deceive and scare the citizens into voluntarily giving up their freedom. The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."

"A simple example, would be making up a plague or some sort, assuring people that millions are doomed to die and then claiming that giving you a lot of money and control is the only hope of averting disaster. Or, perhaps, instead of making up a disease, you can pick a real disease, even the common flu can be used to spread alarm and panic in the peasantry."

Larken Rose

Greatest Crime of the 21st Century - No Quarter!