This 1946 short documentary from Encyclopedia Brittanica Films provides easy and concise instructions on how you can gauge the level of prevalence despotism has in your community.
All you need to know about despotism
This 1946 short documentary from Encyclopedia Brittanica Films provides easy and concise instructions on how you can gauge the level of prevalence despotism has in your community.
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Is it just me, or is this embedded video not working?
It’s just you…
The man has a nice double-breasted suit.
Nice piece of smug propaganda. The US, where that doco was made, would get full marks on the despotism scale by the criteria laid out in the doco, then and now…
Reminds me of the psych/soc degree I did with a bunch of bogus scales fabricated by bored social scientists…
Yeah, it’s just you Paul. Click the video start button and then move the scroll bar a bit and the video should then start.
At the risk of being hit over the knuckles with a ruler by that hectoring school teacher in the film, I was quite surprised at the criteria used in the film to judge despotism.
“If there is a significant gap between rich and poor and if the evil media barons get their organs to just say what they want, then you definitely are on the road to despotism.”
Well it was the socialist 1946 UK of Clement Atlee.
The Despotic States of America in all its shining glory.