A SHORT NOTE ON TYRANNY

There is a sense in which tyranny has become abstract... in this case, how does one fight a phantom? The first task is to demarcate the questions that matter... to a species totally captivated by ego this is itself a revolutionary task, but we never think of it this way. Man is always asking the wrong questions, specifically those that cater to the vanity of his ego. This psychology is so subtle that nearly all miss it... the result is that the ability to ask the right questions (questions that pertain to the objectivity of value) is deformed throughout the species. What man has is confusion mistaken for value, a destructive subjectivity which validates itself through mere assertion. Abstract tyranny hides itself behind the abstraction, this makes it exceedingly difficult to resist and overcome, precisely because it must first be identified within the intellectual domain. Fighting abstract tyranny, at the point of its concrete manifestation can be futile, because it has its origin in the ideology of false values.

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