What it takes to become a ruthless tyrant

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Find and follow West of Center wherever you get your podcasts. This is a CBC podcast. Now all on the mainland were free, but they relapsed into the rule of tyrants, as I shall show. Welcome to Ideas, I'm Nala Ayed. There are certain ingredients that create the conditions for a tyrant to flourish.

There was a man among the Medes, a clever man, whose name was Dioches. Dioches had fallen in love with royal power. He was, quote, seized by a longing the Greek word is eros an eros for tyranny. Seized by an eros, he was he was captured, he became enthralled with the idea of power. It's the same verb that you would use of your passion for a woman.

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