Tyranny

“The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to…

Earlier this week, the Montana super-majority party voted to scapegoat Representative Zooey Zephyr because she would not submit to their tyrannical suppression of free speech and the right to peaceful assembly. I admit Speaker Matt Regier has a different perspective on his decisions to silence an oppressed minority. Regier was…

So much for one essay a day. I severely overestimated myself. Anyway, I am home now, so I can use my illustrated version of the book: Go buy it. It’s amazing. Chapter 3 is titled Beware the One-Party State. It states that the tyrannical parties that have taken over entire…

Proper software development is complex. Some software engineers are creating complex systems without understanding the abstract hierarchy of dependencies between different pieces of software code. This can create what is known in complex social systems as tyranny. Tyranny in Complex Systems When people hear the word tyranny, they think of corrupt oppressive government rule…

Chapter two is titled Defend Our Institutions It covers the mindset of the Jewish people as they watched Hitler take power in 1933. One man wrote about how surely the Nazi party was acting more extremely than they intended to be, surely, they could have faith in their rights as…

WTF America! Someone had to say it! — In the realm of philosophy, the quest for truth is often seen as a noble pursuit. Many philosophers have sought to uncover the fundamental truths of existence, the nature of reality, and the essence of the human experience. …

Chapter one is titled “Do not Obey in Advance” This chapter covers the attitude that received Hitler and Stalin in the 1920s and 30s. Spoiler Alert- there wasn’t much resistance. The people in Germany were, in fact, so gung-ho about the new, hip, and cool Nazi party that they began…

I am currently sitting in the Oklahoma City airport during a hail and thunderstorm. I have long since given up on the idea that my plane will ever take off and I have already rage-quit Into the Breach’s Unfair Mode like 5 times. So, I have resigned myself to living…