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  • Tyrants never simply take power.

  • We the people willingly hand it over.

  • And then watch helplessly as that power is used against us.

  • Why?

  • Because of fear.

  • Fear and the desire for safety cloud our judgment.

  • When we surrender great power to leaders for protection, we forget

  • that concentration of power often makes us less safe as well as less free.

  • In Star Wars, the galactic cynic hands over great powers to Chancellor Palpatine

  • to deal with a hostile force.

  • >> This is a crisis.

  • The Senate must vote the Chancellor emergency powers.

  • He could then approve the creation of an army.

  • >> This cycle of fear and

  • power isn't just something that happened in a galaxy far far away.

  • It's happened repeatedly in our history.

  • It can happen again.

  • After an act of terrorism the newly appointed German Chancellor.

  • Yes, that one.

  • Exploits people's fears to convince parliament to give him emergency powers.

  • He then suspends civil liberties and the democratic process all together.

  • Amazing how emergency powers often outlive the emergency.

  • Similarly, France is in societal upheaval after the French Revolution.

  • A young soldier, Napoleon,

  • promises to protect the fledgling republic from falling back into oligarchy and

  • legitimates his power through direct votes.

  • And again in Rome,

  • Julius Caesar's heir, Octavian, is granted special power by the Senate.

  • Which he conveniently never relinquishes.

  • There are always those who offer salvation at the cost of liberty,

  • if only they can have great power temporarily.

  • >> The power you give me I will lay down when this crisis has abated.

  • Just like in Star Wars, powers are rarely laid down.

  • In Rome, Octavian rides popular support for power and

  • changes his name to Caesar Augustus.

  • The republic falls and the people's voice falls with it.

  • An empire is born.

  • Unsatisfied just to be first consul Napoleon is coronated emperor.

  • Frances ethos changes from liberty, equality,

  • fraternity, to the imposed order, security, efficiency.

  • Star Wars issues a warning and a challenge about power, security, and liberty.

  • Next time you see a leader exploiting fear for power,

  • will you be part of the resistance or will you let the cycle continue?

Tyrants never simply take power.

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星球大戰的陰謀恐懼會讓我們失去自由嗎?- 學習自由 (Star Wars Conspiracy: Does Fear Cost Us Our Liberty? - Learn Liberty)

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