Tyranny is not strength but stupidity disguised as power. It thrives on the illusion of permanence, convincing itself that the bubble it inhabits will not burst. Yet every empire, every system of control, has dissolved into dust. The tyrant clings to the fiction that what they know and what they are will matter forever, but it never does. Their cruelty is not intelligence—it is the simplest and shallowest of strategies, repeated across history with the same inevitable outcome.
The real danger is that this stupidity works in the short term. It rewards selfishness, greed, and betrayal, making it look like cunning. But what looks like strategy is merely turbulence: noise amplified by power. The tyrant is not a master of systems but their fool, mistaking temporary leverage for eternal significance. They are destructive precisely because they cannot see beyond themselves. And that blindness, however horrifying in its effects, guarantees their failure in the long run.
Daedelus Kite 
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The danger is not only that tyranny works in the short term but that its apparent success convinces people it is a reasonable way to live. If greed and betrayal seem to yield survival, if selfishness seems to buy security, then tyranny looks less like a horror and more like a viable strategy. That illusion is deadly. It is not safe, not sustainable, not even coherent over time. Yet because we are immersed in words and symbols—our little semantic worlds—we fail to see how the whole semiotic field adapts around us, recoding tyranny so that compliance feels natural, even inevitable.
This is why opposition often backfires. Attempts to resist tyranny, framed in the language of national self-determination or cultural defense, often amplify the very thing they oppose. Fear and hatred are fed back into the system as signal, commodified and sold back to their supporters as identity. What looks like defiance becomes replication. The protest is packaged as product, the anger becomes another asset, and the power structure reinvents itself through the energy of resistance. In this way, tyranny does not only persist; it positively thrives on efforts made to escape it.
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