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Podcast: Modern Wisdom
Episode: #102 - Frank Dikotter - How To Be A Dictator
Description: Frank Dikotter is a historian and author.The 20th Century was characterised by an attempt on the one hand to build up civil society and have cheques & balances, and on the other hand an attempt to concentrate power into the hand of a single dictator.Expect to learn what the characteristics of a dictator are, why the 20th century created a perfect petri dish for this proliferation, how a dictator coerces his people into supporting him and how dictators deal with the paradox of hiding their goals of tyranny in a democratic society....