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“According to Adam Jones, it is confirmed to be about hypocrisy and is a double entendre that refers to both drug intoxication and believing oneself to be above others, deriving from the phrase “the pot calling the kettle black”.” And, if you would rather just read the lyrics.Īll things aside, including this Tool song, C.S. NOTE: According to some this is somewhat of a ‘love letter’ to God or to religion, although the band has never indicated as such. WARNING: There are a couple of *spotted* curse words in this song, however it is a intellectual song, so in my mind, even if curse words offended me ( which they do not ), it is worth a listen. Reminds me of the Tool song titled The Pot, please enjoy the cover by Brass Against ( Yeah, it’s Friday again, so I had to sneak this in here ): Let’s just do a rephrase here – Someone who can “do anything”, is a “lesson teacher” and “who meddles in the affairs of others”. someone that is on their moral high horse. The next part of the comparison is “omnipotent moral busybodies”. Robber baron is a sneaky business person, possibly malicious and they want all your money. “ Robber baron” is a derogatory metaphor of social criticism originally applied to certain late 19th-century American businessmen who were accused of using unscrupulous methods to get rich, or expand their wealth. “It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.” C.S. So, this tyrant or ruler makes decisions for his people and what he thinks is “best”. Lewis is talking about? I think tyranny type #2 catches it. The question is, did we find the type of tyranny that C.S. A bit bull-headed if you ask me, unless everything is already a total disaster, even then – why reinvent the wheel? Anyways, THAT’S BEYOND THE SCOPE OF THIS CLASS!! ? Wait – what the crap is “ Millenarianism“? This is just a ruler that comes in and decided “all things will be changed”.
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They really want to improve their society and people through the constructive exercise of their untrammeled authority.”ģ) “The third type is uniquely modern, the “millenarian” tyrant, who is “driven by the impulse to impose a millenarian blueprint that will bring about a society of the future in which the individual will be submerged in the collective and all privilege and alienation will forever be eradicated.” This form of tyranny begins with the French Revolution and Robespierre, and continues through Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, and, Newell argues, contemporary Jihadists.” Source: Three Forms of Tyranny by Peter Leithart But they are not mere hedonists or profit seekers. Waller Newell defined three type of tyrannies:ġ) “The first is the “garden-variety” tyrant, most common in the ancient world: “These are basically men who dispose of an entire country and society as if it were their personal property”.Ģ) “The second type of tyrant is the “reforming tyrant”: “These are men who are indeed driven to possess supreme honor and wealth, and power unconstrained by law or democracy. Now, back to the first part of the first sentence – “Of all tyrannies”. Definition #4 is what we are dealing with from Lewis, I believe.
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At least that is how the term was actually used back then. A system of government in which power is exercised on behalf of the ruler or ruling class, without regard to the wishes of the governed.Īre we are referring to simply a King? No, not quite it is more like an unlawful absolute ruler, one that works against it’s own people.
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The office or jurisdiction of an absolute ruler.Ĥ. A government in which a single ruler (a tyrant) has absolute power this system of government.Ģ. Tyranny ( countable and uncountable, plural tyrannies)ġ. In this first part of the first sentence we are presented with the idea of multiple kinds of tyranny, but before we get into that lets get very basic and find out what exactly Tyranny is: Hello to Dusty from across the wire portal. Lewis Source: DustyReviewsĭ inspired this post, so shout out to him. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated but those who torment us for our good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for all the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. Betcha didn’t know you were going to have class today, huh? That’s right.NOW SIT DOWN AND GRAB YOUR NOTEPAD AND #2 PENCIL.