Graham Priest

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Elucidations · Elucidations Episode 124: Graham Priest discusses Buddhist political philosophy · 21 Mar 2020 podcast

We've been there.

Now, in many power structures, the people in power are minority and that's certainly true in capitalism.

We know all about the mobs in.

Now how is it that a minority can maintain the status quo

if the system is not running for the benefit of the majority of people.

Well, sometimes the answer is bloody obvious.

You use violence.

Okay?

So something like that happened in apartheid South Africa, where the white minority kept the black and coloured population under control by military and police violence.

Okay.

Okay, one of the remarkable things about a modern democratic and I say that in scare quotes, all right?

society is that it doesn't resort to violence much.

No.

It does sometimes.

So when the chips are really down, you can bring in the military, you can bring in the National Guard or whatever.

So when things get serious, you know, the powers that be will call in violence.

But it's remarkable that happens very, very rarely.

Okay.

So how is this done?

Well it's because you don't control people by violence, you control people by their minds, okay?

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