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How To Spot A Despot

A brand new piece inspired by the news on Friday 13 December 2019. The sampled dialogue is taken from a public information film made in 1946 but you could believe it was written only yesterday; it is so pertinent to the sorry state of global politics right now. But then of course, we all know history repeats itself.

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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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from The Internal Inferno Of The Nocturnal Mock Turtle, released July 3, 2020
All composition, production, synths, two-string fretless bass, guitars, bass VI, chime bars and samples by Gavin Lloyd Wilson. Recorded 13-16 December 2019 in the Spurious Transients studio, Pembrokeshire, Wales.

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