1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,720 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Sheep get Sheared podcast, home of people, politics, 2 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:12,720 and popular culture. 3 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:17,320 Oh, your host, Austin Crude, I want to welcome you into the show. 4 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:23,720 So I've talked about the government at length multiple times on this show. 5 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:29,200 In fact, for those of you who are new to the show, I used to work for the government. 6 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:35,400 I was in the Air Force for about two years, a top secret clearance, learned quite a bit 7 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:39,000 about some of the shady workings of the government. 8 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:46,000 And so when you learn in college about how the government is a necessary evil, well, 9 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,840 trust me, I was already aware of that. 10 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:53,920 But you know, when you discuss government and politics and whatnot, people tend to get 11 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:54,920 a little triggered. 12 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:55,920 And you know what? 13 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:57,640 I totally get that. 14 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:02,720 People told me when I was a kid, don't discuss religion or politics. 15 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:07,840 And yet here I am talking about it on a somewhat normal basis. 16 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:11,920 But my friends, what we're going to talk about today is tyranny. 17 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:17,320 You know, when you stay on social media long enough, I wouldn't fault you for saying that 18 00:01:17,320 --> 00:01:24,180 everything and everybody has something to do with tyranny or propaganda or whatever. 19 00:01:24,180 --> 00:01:29,560 It's very easy to get sucked up into this world, but we're going to really go through 20 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:32,280 and unveil what tyranny is historically. 21 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:38,080 And we're going to take a little journey down memory lane to look at some historical examples 22 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:43,760 of tyranny, both in the literature and in real life. 23 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:45,840 So without further ado, let's hop right into it. 24 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:51,160 Number one thing I want to discuss is the origins of tyranny. 25 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:57,360 So when it comes to tyranny and it comes to politics in general, there's usually a common 26 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:02,240 denominator of the origins of modern political theory. 27 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:04,280 And that goes back to the ancient Greeks. 28 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:13,520 Now I know when some people hear ancient Greeks, they're immediately, I know I get it. 29 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:14,520 Trust me. 30 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:15,520 I understand. 31 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:16,520 Bear with me. 32 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:17,600 This is important. 33 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:23,080 So tyranny is defined as the absolute rule by a single authority. 34 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:29,840 Lord Acton wrote that power corrupts, an absolute power corrupts absolutely. 35 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:38,240 Well, we've seen examples of this in history, and it usually consists of oppressing the 36 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:41,680 people in being unjust in your rulings. 37 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:47,840 And part of this is really ingrained in the human condition when it comes to power, wealth, 38 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:50,060 control and whatnot. 39 00:02:50,060 --> 00:02:55,480 But we see examples of this all throughout every culture in human history. 40 00:02:55,480 --> 00:03:01,600 But let's go back to the cradle of civilization itself, which will be ancient Mesopotamia, 41 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:07,240 where the concept of a single ruler wielding absolute power first emerged. 42 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:15,440 Now back in that day, they had their leadership be both head of church and state, or there 43 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:18,680 would be the king and then there would be the priestess. 44 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:22,640 And they would symbolize the head of church and the head of state. 45 00:03:22,640 --> 00:03:28,640 But there were many examples of the ruler being the head of both church and state. 46 00:03:28,640 --> 00:03:30,840 In the Bible, they talk about Melchizedek. 47 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:33,240 He's an example of that. 48 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:38,560 But because people wanted to control both the body and soul of the human being, they 49 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:43,000 wanted to control both the clergy and the crown. 50 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,000 So there's nothing new in that regard. 51 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,320 But let's fast forward to the ancient Greeks and the Romans. 52 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:54,600 Because we have people like Julius Caesar as another example of someone who took power. 53 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:59,040 Oh, goodness, I hope I pronounced this right. 54 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:02,720 I've been playing with this pronunciation. 55 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:05,600 Is this, I'm sorry, I'm not a Greek man. 56 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:07,520 I do my best. 57 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:09,280 But there's another example. 58 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:12,800 But let's go back even to the Greek literature itself. 59 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:18,720 You have men like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, who played with these philosophic concepts. 60 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:28,520 In fact, in Plato's Republic, Socrates had an example of tyranny as preferring foreigners 61 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:31,320 over the indigenous population. 62 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:38,000 And using that definition, Joe Biden can be described as a tyrant using that definition, 63 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,000 because he seems to prefer the people coming into the country more than the people who 64 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,520 are already in the country. 65 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:50,160 And you know, when I talk about immigration, which I plan to do later today, immigration 66 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,680 kind of ties into this whole thing as well. 67 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,600 But I want to make one thing perfectly clear. 68 00:04:55,600 --> 00:05:00,880 When it comes to immigration, the reason why I'm so against the anti-immigration, especially 69 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:06,760 anti-illegal immigration, is not because I don't like Hispanic people. 70 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:13,040 It is not because I don't like people who are black or Arabic or anything else. 71 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:17,200 It's because I don't like people breaking the law. 72 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:18,200 Let me tell you something. 73 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:21,880 Do you think it's okay for someone to just walk into your house? 74 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:22,880 Of course not. 75 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:26,560 So why would anybody just be allowed to walk into your country? 76 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:27,560 That's my philosophy. 77 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:33,720 And if it was happening from people from European countries as well, I'd be saying the same 78 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:34,940 thing. 79 00:05:34,940 --> 00:05:37,600 My message would not change at all. 80 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:40,200 So I want to make that perfectly clear. 81 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:46,160 Because I understand that when it comes down to it, Herbert Marcuse and his acolytes did 82 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:49,600 a very good job when it came to the creation of racism offenses. 83 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:54,440 If you don't know who Herbert Marcuse is, you might have heard of Bill Ayers, that name 84 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:57,360 might ring a bell for you. 85 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:59,800 But you might not have heard of Herbert Marcuse. 86 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:04,400 You know, I've discussed him before, but I might have to do a whole other show on Herbert 87 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:10,800 Marcuse because Herbert Marcuse is a man who was a Western juggernaut. 88 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:17,880 He was a left-wing juggernaut in the 60s when he came over and built the Frankfurt School 89 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:23,480 of Marxist Theory, which is now known as the Frankfurt School of Critical Thinking. 90 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:26,320 Ironic, right? 91 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:33,600 But one of his eleven- he had eleven things that he really put forward towards what he 92 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:39,880 called the Silent Revolution or the Quiet Revolution, which I've discussed before at 93 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:45,720 length, but I'll give you a little bit of a Cliff Notes version of this. 94 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:50,560 One of the number one thing that he saw in America that could lead towards this Quiet 95 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:55,920 Revolution was, in his words, the creation of racism offenses. 96 00:06:55,920 --> 00:07:03,040 In other words, whenever possible, focus upon race, not upon substance. 97 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:09,320 And we see that all the time, which goes back to being oppressive and unjust. 98 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:17,280 Another one of his examples was creating a legal system with a bias against the victims 99 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:24,120 of actual crime, with a bias towards illegal aliens, bias towards drug dealers, biases towards 100 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:31,640 pimps and low-lives and degenerates, which we see already today. 101 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:36,400 Now let's get back to the historical examples of tyranny. 102 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:38,280 So history is live with tyrants. 103 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:44,160 We can look at Napoleon, Genghis Khan, we can look at the czars of Russia, we can look 104 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:50,200 at the more extreme examples like old Adolf and Joseph Stalin, but you know what's interesting 105 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:56,760 is history is usually the determinator of tyrants because history is written by the 106 00:07:56,760 --> 00:08:01,360 victors, so the victors tend not to write themselves as tyrants. 107 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:04,440 You could take a man like Abraham Lincoln as an example. 108 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:07,280 Lincoln is seen as a great president, which he was. 109 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:13,760 However, he was very tyrannical with his approaches towards the Civil War. 110 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:23,180 Laying down telegraph lines, jailing political opponents, throwing journalists in prison. 111 00:08:23,180 --> 00:08:29,120 Those kinds of things by today's standards are very tyrannical, but because he won the 112 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:32,200 war we don't see that side of him. 113 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:37,840 We see the side that's purely positive. 114 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:42,040 But versus a person like Ivan the Terrible of Russia, you're going to clearly see as 115 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:50,200 being very fear mongering expansionists or Genghis Khan who was merciless in his pursuit 116 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:51,200 of conquest. 117 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:57,400 But I wanted to point that out because tyranny is often just seen through blood and iron, 118 00:08:57,400 --> 00:08:59,080 but it's not always that clear cut. 119 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:06,880 A lot of times it comes through the power of the pen, which we see in the modern day. 120 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:12,160 The psychology of tyrants can vary quite a bit, but what drives a person to become a 121 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:18,200 tyrant according to psychological studies suggests that there's a mix of A. Extreme 122 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:27,800 ambition B. Narcissism and C. Often they come from a background of insecurity or trauma. 123 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:34,080 Now I want to point something out that these three character traits in and of itself, ambition, 124 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:37,360 narcissism, and trauma, trauma is inherent in this human condition. 125 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:41,600 I mean, let's just, let's just be real here, okay? 126 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:47,760 But the individuals who contain these tend to crave power and control and they often 127 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:52,960 view themselves as above the law and above morality. 128 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:57,360 Now I'm not a huge fan of the weaponization of morality because morality is something 129 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:04,080 that's often used by the weak to justify the strength of the, justify away the superiority 130 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:09,160 of the strong and that has nothing to do with race, nothing to do with religion and everything 131 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:12,800 to do with your, yourself as an individual. 132 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:14,600 That's what I say. 133 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:19,120 But in the modern world, we tend to see things a little less black and white because things 134 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:22,040 are very gray when you put them into reality. 135 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:25,720 In today's world, tyranny is not always very overt. 136 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:30,840 Like we said before with examples like Ivan the Terrible, examples like Genghis Khan, 137 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:36,480 old Adolf and Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung, Paul Pot, you go down on the list. 138 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:40,320 But in today's world, the modern tyrants are often more subtle. 139 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:44,520 They use stuff like control and influence over the media. 140 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:47,280 Hmm, sound familiar? 141 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:51,160 Manipulation of the legal system, like the two tiered justice system we have in this 142 00:10:51,160 --> 00:11:01,440 country and using democracy as like a guise for their oligarchy tendencies and they want 143 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:03,920 to maintain power at all costs. 144 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:06,120 Sound familiar? 145 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:13,080 I want to highly point out though the control over the media because when it comes down 146 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:16,280 to it, the media is in business to make money. 147 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:20,680 And so when you look at where the money is going, you can often find out who is behind 148 00:11:20,680 --> 00:11:25,080 the puppets, who is the puppet master pulling the puppet strings. 149 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:32,240 All you gotta do is follow the purse because the purse has tremendous power. 150 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:36,400 So we've talked about what tyranny looks like historically. 151 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:39,000 We talked about what it looks like in the modern day. 152 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:45,240 But what do you do to resist these tyrants who exhibit these qualities we've discussed? 153 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:51,880 Human ambition, narcissism, using their trauma to justify their craving for power and control. 154 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:54,280 How do we resist these things? 155 00:11:54,280 --> 00:12:00,600 Well, to fight against tyranny, we have to really understand where it comes from, which 156 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:01,600 we've done. 157 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:09,400 But we also need to look at such documentation that's been used to curtail these antics in 158 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:10,580 the past. 159 00:12:10,580 --> 00:12:15,880 Stuff like the Magna Carta in 1215, we can also look at the American Constitution, we 160 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:20,760 can look at the French revolutionaries who then sowed the wind and erupted the whirlwind 161 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:23,880 of Napoleon in the French Empire. 162 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:29,520 History is filled with these types of movements that sometimes even led to a blowing of the 163 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:31,880 wind in the opposite direction. 164 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:33,400 But you want to fall in the middle. 165 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,080 The middle is usually the right place to be. 166 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:43,160 It was Barry Goldwater who said that extremism and the defense of liberty is no vice, and 167 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:46,320 moderation and the pursuit of justice is no virtue. 168 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:48,560 Now there is a statesman. 169 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:50,000 That is a statesman right there. 170 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,560 But would you agree with a statement like that? 171 00:12:53,560 --> 00:12:54,560 What do you think? 172 00:12:54,560 --> 00:12:55,560 Do you think he's right? 173 00:12:55,560 --> 00:12:56,560 Do you think he's wrong? 174 00:12:56,560 --> 00:12:57,560 What do you think? 175 00:12:57,560 --> 00:13:02,280 Well, let's keep going down this path. 176 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:06,720 Because despotic rule is inherent in the human condition. 177 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:11,740 The weak inherently crave the rule of the strong, but they also like to criticize the 178 00:13:11,740 --> 00:13:14,080 ruling of the strong. 179 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:16,740 So it's kind of hard to have it both ways. 180 00:13:16,740 --> 00:13:22,100 It's also, it'd be important to note that mob rule has also historically not worked 181 00:13:22,100 --> 00:13:23,100 out very well. 182 00:13:23,100 --> 00:13:30,120 So you need to find that good balance, which is what the American experiment is all about. 183 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:36,240 If you read the Federalist papers or the Brewerist papers, you get a really interesting insight 184 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:42,360 into trying to bring together the necessary evil of government with the desire to provide 185 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:45,160 freedom to the people. 186 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:52,920 But let's keep going because I think showing strength in resilience and trying to find 187 00:13:52,920 --> 00:14:00,840 this peaceful balance and not trying to use violence to solve all your problems is inherently 188 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:05,680 something that goes against our natural programming. 189 00:14:05,680 --> 00:14:12,520 So since tyranny is as old as civilization itself, our approach at how to curtail it 190 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:13,520 is going to evolve. 191 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:18,800 I mean, there's no ifs, ands, or puts around this, but understanding the history we've 192 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:25,040 passed, understanding the realities of how the modern day is a little bit different looking 193 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:32,920 than the past will hopefully allow you to see that the media covers for the people in 194 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:34,560 power, number one. 195 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:39,040 And number two, you need to question everything that comes your way. 196 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:43,560 Because if you just believe everything that everyone says, you're going to be a useful 197 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:44,760 idiot. 198 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:49,840 Lenin wrote about useful idiots, he used them to build an entire empire. 199 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:51,840 Don't be one of those people. 200 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:56,760 If you ask questions, you become an informed citizen, which makes you the most dangerous 201 00:14:56,760 --> 00:15:00,800 adversary to any social order on the planet. 202 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:04,560 But my friends, what do you think about tyranny? 203 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:08,720 Do you think that, who would you say is a tyrant on the modern political stage? 204 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:13,800 It could be in America, it could be in any other country on the planet, United Nations, 205 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:14,800 anywhere. 206 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:15,800 What do you think? 207 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:22,280 Who would fit the description based on the characteristics, historical references, and 208 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:26,160 the analysis that we've done on this show today? 209 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:30,400 If you like what you heard, you want to answer the question to me directly, you can head 210 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:35,640 on over to my ex at SheetKidSheared, hit me in my DMs, my DMs are open, you're more than 211 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:40,640 welcome to ask questions, give me answers to any questions I ask throughout the show. 212 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:46,640 But my friends, I really want you to dive into these topics because they're very important 213 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:51,960 to your life, they're very important when you follow the people in power and what they're 214 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:58,240 doing, a fish rocks from the head down, so you need to spot the rock before it gets down 215 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:00,080 too far. 216 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,920 My friends, God bless you, God bless your families, and God bless America, I'm out of 217 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:10,240 here, have a great Christmas, happy Christmas, sorry, happy Christmas Eve, Merry Christmas 218 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:14,400 tomorrow, and my friends, let's get out here and enjoy ourselves, but let's stay informed, 219 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:41,400 I'm out of here, peace.