{"id":4718,"date":"2021-04-27T19:52:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T19:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/?p=4718"},"modified":"2021-04-27T19:52:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T19:52:14","slug":"aristotle-and-plato-on-why-diversity-is-tyranny-citas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/2021\/04\/27\/aristotle-and-plato-on-why-diversity-is-tyranny-citas\/","title":{"rendered":"Aristotle And Plato On Why Diversity Is Tyranny – Citas"},"content":{"rendered":"

by\u00a0Brett Stevens<\/a>\u00a0on June 22, 2017<\/small><\/p>\n

[Taken from http:\/\/www.amerika.org\/politics\/aristotle-and-plato-on-why-diversity-is-tyranny\/]<\/p>\n

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Some have noticed recently that the ancients realized that diversity was a means to an end, namely of the power of tyrants. Guillaume Durocher\u00a0quotes Aristotle on the topic of multiculturalism<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Aristotle\u2019s ideal of citizenship, entailing civic duties and group solidarity, necessarily requires a strong common identity and a sharp differentiation between citizens and foreigners. Conversely, foreign mercenaries had no solidarity with the people, and were thus frequently used by tyrants to enforce their unjust rule:<\/p>\n

The guard of a legitimate king is composed of citizens: that of a tyrant is composed of foreigners.<\/p>\n

It is a habit of tyrants never to like anyone who has a spirit of dignity and independence. The tyrant claims a monopoly of such qualities for himself; he feels that anybody who asserts a rival dignity, or acts with independence, is threatening his own superiority and the despotic power of his tyranny; he hates him accordingly as a subverter of his own authority. It is also a habit of tyrants to prefer the company of aliens to that of citizens at table and in society; citizens, they feel, are enemies, but aliens will offer no opposition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This passage brings to mind the Bolshevik tyranny in the early decades of the Soviet Union, when the government, and especially the secret police, was dominated by people from non-Russian ethnic groups.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can also find\u00a0Aristotle referring to the failure of diversity<\/a>\u00a0as a cause of civilization disintegration:<\/p>\n

Another cause of revolution is difference of races which do not at once acquire a common spirit; for a state is not the growth of a day, any more than it grows out of a multitude brought together by accident. Hence the reception of strangers in colonies, either at the time of their foundation or afterwards, has generally produced revolution; for example, the Achaeans who joined the Troezenians in the foundation of Sybaris, becoming later the more numerous, expelled them; hence the curse fell upon Sybaris. At Thurii the Sybarites quarrelled with their fellow-colonists; thinking that the land belonged to them, they wanted too much of it and were driven out. At Byzantium the new colonists were detected in a conspiracy, and were expelled by force of arms; the people of Antissa, who had received the Chian exiles, fought with them, and drove them out; and the Zancleans, after having received the Samians, were driven by them out of their own city. The citizens of Apollonia on the Euxine, after the introduction of a fresh body of colonists, had a revolution; the Syracusans, after the expulsion of their tyrants, having admitted strangers and mercenaries to the rights of citizenship, quarrelled and came to blows; the people of Amphipolis, having received Chalcidian colonists, were nearly all expelled by them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Interestingly enough, Plato observes the exact same thing, namely that\u00a0tyrants import foreigners as replacements for non-compliant citizens<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Certainly.
\nAnd who are the devoted band, and where will he procure them?
\nThey will flock to him, he said, of their own accord, if lie pays them.<\/p>\n

By the dog! I said, here are more drones, of every sort and from every land.<\/p>\n

Yes, he said, there are.
\nBut will he not desire to get them on the spot?
\nHow do you mean?
\nHe will rob the citizens of their slaves; he will then set them free and enrol them in his bodyguard.<\/p>\n

To be sure, he said; and he will be able to trust them best of all.
\nWhat a blessed creature, I said, must this tyrant be; he has put to death the others and has these for his trusted friends.<\/p>\n

Yes, he said; they are quite of his sort.
\nYes, I said, and these are the new citizens whom he has called into existence, who admire him and are his companions, while the good hate and avoid him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It would be foolish to imagine that anything about human behavior has changed for the last 2400 years. The same tactics still work: if you want to rule forever, subjugate people by destroying their culture and importing scabs to supplant them. The EU and US have pursued the same policy since 1965.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by\u00a0Brett Stevens\u00a0on June 22, 2017 [Taken from http:\/\/www.amerika.org\/politics\/aristotle-and-plato-on-why-diversity-is-tyranny\/] Some have noticed recently that the ancients realized that diversity was a means to an end, namely of the power of tyrants. Guillaume Durocher\u00a0quotes Aristotle on the topic of multiculturalism: Aristotle\u2019s ideal of citizenship, entailing civic duties and group solidarity, necessarily requires a strong common identity and … Sigue leyendo Aristotle And Plato On Why Diversity Is Tyranny – Citas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4719,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718\/revisions\/4719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}