How to Build the Perfect Tyrant: A Visual Narrative

Recording Editorial History
7 min readMay 11, 2019

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Remember them?

How? Why?

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Social unrest

Extreme Poverty

Starvation

No work, nothing to do

What about fear, terror, the idea that people are coming to get you?

People see plots against them everywhere

You can’t trust anyone

What can we do?

But if everything is broken?

People’s doubts leads to rage

What is the solution?

And yet, “tyranny” can take different sides, mistrust turning all opposition into tyrants.

Just remember:

None of this has a specific target, a separate political agenda preaching some solution to the nagging nightmares that continue to overwhelm the world. All this is meant to be is a reflection, a look in the mirror at how far we have come from the ideals that once made the idea of freedom the only thing people yearned for.

One last thing:

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