And we know by history, we know by their contemporaries, that number one, they were the allied of the tyrants, of the despots , and especially of those who condemned to death Socrates, which was a huge event in the history of humanity. The death of Socrates is something on which humanity reflected for centuries.
And another thing that I really wanted to tell was the story of all the people's lives, careers he ruined. I mean he sounds like a despot and he kind of was on a bike. And there was this whole generation of guys who could and probably thought when they were 19, 20, 21 that they were gonna be you know Mohammed Ali on a bike, or Pele on a bike.
um one who didn't really have a lot of luxuries himself, led a simple life, but was consistent with his opposition to what he saw uh tyranny and despotism. And people bought into it.
And "West Side Story" is his most famous and successful attempt, successful attempt, to use his music And it wasn't until a little later that they discovered how despotic and tyrannical the Soviet Union actually was.
And you can cut off all your cookies. It can be used in China, used by despots .
And this is a very fine calculation that changes every week, let alone every year. which is of ultimate interest or even at the top of the list of interests of despots ,
It's the effective use of the cars as opposed to the sheer number of cars. Right, I mean, it's better than the mere despotic dominion over a car that, after all, you then have to take care of, and find a place to put, and all the rest of it, which is inevitably the third best car, or the fifth best car,
Well, I think the reason is that we had this big shift that took place in the 19th century where we went from this sort of network topology There's an underlying grievance in both cases here about the corruption of the Catholic church or of the despotic leaders in various Arab countries.
How do you climb the ladder in the workplace? But if you find yourself in a different situation in which there is a steeper slope ladder-- the system is more despotic, the power is concentrated in
The full extent of Diderot's influence was not known, however, until a young German academic, Herbert Dieckmann, located the final lost cache of Diderot's writings. And eventually when they all got to her, she was very unhappy about some of these things because she said, you know, you are a despot
And when people rise up in Tunisia or in Egypt or wherever, or in Ukraine or wherever-- it's happened in many places-- the Western powers are like, oh great, a democratic movement will overthrow this despotic regime, another spot of light, sunlight in the world.
She told him her dreams. She would dress in a starched sari and teach history to school children, stories of conquerors and despots . Her students would be obedient.