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Transforming the everyday tyrannies that destroy our souls


Tyranny often does its work on us through the normalization  of its methods.

It turns itself into the norm, its methods incorporated into our everyday behaviors and interactions.

We are turned into tools of the tyrannical structure, often through our consent to participate in it.

From the routine forms of participation in the everyday demands of tyranny to carrying out surveillance to  delivering punishment on behalf of the structure, we make ourselves as the instruments of tyranny.

We even feel glee doing the work of surveillance or doing the work of crafting out the right punishment to the non-believer.

Tyranny recruits into its structures the very best among us. Leading us to believe in its methods and its legitimacy. Cultivating in us the faith in the methods of tyranny as necessary responses to the non-believer.

To have the courage to reject the methods of tyranny is seen as an act of betrayal, therefore calling for legitimate responses of violence.

Tyranny is omnipresent in its reach. Its seduction lies in the promises it offers for opportunities, career progression, and movements up the ladder. Or for that matter, simply in the security of a routine job within the structures of tyranny.

Normative appeals to pragmatism are deployed by the tyrannical structure to recruit the instruments of the structure.

"I must compromise with tyranny so I can survive." The discourse of survival routinizes everyday participation in the techniques of tyranny. Workers, neighbors, friends are turned "on" each other, doing the work of the tyrannical structure just to survive.

One is led to believe, "You have no other options." This sense of having no other options makes the compromise with tyranny a necessity for survival.

Often we get very little in giving up our humanity to the methods of tyranny. What might look like the promise of security turns out to be the very basis for a precarious life. One compromise leads to the next and leads to the next.

The onslaught on our souls is a technique of tyranny, with the incipient message that to simply function, we must participate in the delivery of tyranny.

The recruitment of the decent, the human, the kind into its structures is essential to the survival of tyranny. Yet tyrannies are themselves precarious as they survive on the perpetuation of fear.

The recognition of the fear that drives tyranny is the basis for taking it down.

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