World Dictators
Kim Jong-il, Stalin, Hitler, Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Mao Zedong and other world dictators have occupied our minds and left their marks on history like scars. They fascinate us and horrify us. They are the rulers we love to hate. For the people they have ruled they have meant a mixture of “big brother” type security and absolute terror.
There is something so unique about one human holding absolute power over a nation or empire that captures our attention. To err is to be human and when one human controls everything a personal mistake becomes a world tragedy. Entire populations are exterminated, wars are waged, freedoms are torn away.
But dictators come to power through hope and fear. The people hope they will cut through politics and simply enact what the people want. But there is no room for compromise. By definition dictatorships result in massive horror. Yet we are fascinated.
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