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How To Spot A Despot
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How To Spot A Despot
When a competent observer looks for signs of despotism in a community he looks beyond fine words and noble phrases
What sort of community do you live in?
Where would you place it on a democracy/despotism scale?
A community is low on a respect scale if common courtesy is withheld from large groups of people on account of their political attitude
Communities which concentrate decision making in a few hands rate low on a power scale and are moving towards despotism
As a community moves towards despotism respect is restricted to fewer people
The test of despotic power is that it can disregard the will of the people - it rules without the consent of the governed
If people are rude to others because they think their wealth and position gives them that right or because they don't like a man's race or his religion
Today democracy can ebb away in communities whose citizens allow power to become concentrated in the hands of bosses
They don't like a man's race
Or his religion
These children are being taught to accept uncritically whatever they are told
Questions are not encouraged
Where land is privately owned one sign of a poorly balanced economy is the concentration of land ownership in the hands of a very small number of people
A community rates low on an information scale when the press, radio and other channels of communication are controlled by only a few people and when citizens have to accept what they are told
Citizens have to accept what they are told
And if books, newspapers and the radio are officially controlled the people will read and accept exactly what the few in control want them to
It is also possible for newspapers and other forms of communication to be controlled by private interests
Another sign of a poorly balanced economy is a taxation system that presses heaviest on those least able to pay
Questions...
Questions are not encouraged
Citizens have to accept what they are told
Questions are not encouraged
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Airborne
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Geranium
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Taking The Mickey
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The Gorilla!
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Yeah!
Let's dance
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Successful Party Tips
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Resplendent Sublimity
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Kalimba Chant
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Spurious Transients Wales, UK
Post-psychedelic krautrock-inspired Welsh electronic music collective, strong DIY ethic, supporters & purveyors of non-disposable music on physical media, demanding fair play for musicians!
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Brilliant album of original music inspired by George Orwell's "1984". Largely electronic, it doesn't quite descend into the realms of ambience because of the unsettling feel of the music.
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The Portrait Peels (Off)
by Shadow Grew a Body
Inspired use of spoken word content and beautifully crafted modern electronica exploring themes of human migration, alienation and identity.
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A compendium of conflict told through a nautical lens: calm seas that belie the frantic happenings below; arduous journeys bereft of destination; shelter without peace and of peace without shelter.
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The Wax Monster Lives Behind the First Row of Trees
by Moon Goose
supported by 14 fans who also own “The Internal Inferno Of The Nocturnal Mock Turtle”
That track has everything and anything in it. A pheasant's father, a watering can, unfinished alphabets from ancient civilisations, the two of spades, the morning dew, and Hell on earth.
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supported by 13 fans who also own “The Internal Inferno Of The Nocturnal Mock Turtle”
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Tearing at the Edges of all Restraint
by BLACKLIGHT CHAMELEON
Blacklight Chameleon voyages to the dark side of electronic music, writing songs full of tension and grim intensity.
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