Gavin de Becker

And a moment ago when I said that tyranny is the normal state of affairs for how people are governed, how is it exercised?

Through fear.

always through fear.

Fear is the method that causes division, and division is the fuel of power, meaning you want the population to be divided.

You want the left and the right.

You want the Trumpers and the Democrats and the forever Trumpers and the never Trumpers.

Division is the fuel that all world leaders relish.

I give you the example in the cleanest terms.

The king and the queen look over the castle wall, and when they see there,

subjects fighting, they high-five each other.

Because if they're fighting with each other, they're not coming over the wall.

And there's always a wall.

But if they're not fighting with each other, that's a big problem.

Because then they're coming over the wall.

Because everybody knows in their heart, wait a minute, these fuckers are living in absolute luxury while I can't afford to feed my kids?

They're motorcades today, and in those days they're beautiful

ornate wagons pulled by a bunch of horses go by and splatter mud on me in the street?

What really is the difference?

I mean, royalty is such a bullshit scam.

I'll give you the optimistic version because I have a dear friend who happens to live in Cape Town who helps me with this sometimes because, like anybody, when I look a lot at what happens, I can get discouraged.