Pros And Cons Of Ideological Despotism

The inability to generate satire concerning a particular ideology are precursors to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. Dogma is dangerous, whether it is in the state, such as Hitler or Mao; or regimes of faith, such as the Inquisition or the papacy. Ideological despotism is a tool used by zealots, and collectively we mustn’t allow any religion to set themselves in this classification due to fear of reproach from fundamentalist zealots among them. The latest attack, against the French polemicist magazine, Charlie Hebdo, is something that strikes at the core of the fundamental nationalistic ideologies in Western civilization, and the antibiotic of despotism and is an ideological dogma itself, freedom of speech. “French anticlerical thinkers have historically been critical of predominately the country’s state religion of Catholicism; predominately of

The United States influence in the power struggles of the middle-east region since the ending of the Cold War is not a secret, nor is the reality that these relations have continued to this day, as we pursue that “black gold”. A combination of fundamentalist frustration to return to previous era’s before exposure to “Western culture” which has its own shortcomings, especially in regards to women's rights and sexuality and hatred for those who took their personal sovereignty away. Our subsequent destruction predominately Islamic countries via invasion(Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan), and continual drone attacks do not provide safety for the pillars of an ideology or a new form of thinking other than that in place to take root. In the wake of death and destruction, emotion dominates our logic as our primal nature for “fair” is desired in response to the attacks on 9/11. In The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton, she correlates the wretchedness of an existence from poverty, to hope for escape of “salvation”, rather than improvement of one’s material circumstances at the