We Should Not Fear The Tyrants; The Tyrants Should Fear Us

About this episode

The episode discusses the imbalance of power between a few tyrants and the majority of humanity, using an island analogy.

If there were a thousand people living on an island, and one of them began making life miserable for everyone else, there would soon be 999 people living on the island. How strange, then, that a few oligarchs and empire managers get to push around an entire planet full of humans. Reading by Tim Foley.

People in this episode

Hosts: Caitlin Johnstone, Tim Foley

Topics covered

• tyranny
• empire
• human rights
• social justice
• power dynamics

Keywords

• tyrants
• oligarchs
• empire
• power
• humanity
• social dynamics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: oligarchs, empire managers

Places: island

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