Essay On Tyranny

Intro: Tyranny is something all people want to avoid. Even thinking a country is falling into a tyrant’s hands unsettles the people. Paul Houston is one of those people, as he writes about his country falling into chaos he states, “I think there is a rising tyranny in the now that worries me,” (Houston). What Houston didn’t realize is that there is a step further than tyranny. Totalitarianism can be confused as a tyrant, however, it is quite different as a tyranny is chaos totalitarianism is more of a forced unification. In Arendt’s “Ideology and Terror: A Novel Form of Government,” she explains that the government or ruler is trying to transform their subjects into their full human potential. Sounds good and dandy until totalitarians start

Ideology is a mixture of science and nature, and Arendt puts it, “Combine the scientific approach with results of philosophy relevance and pretend to be scientific philosophy,” (p 95 ¶ 26). They also take what is used from history to try to justify their cause as well. The American government does this as well. In 1787 the constitution was ratified, it is still being used the today. Which isn’t a bad thing, however, the majority of the population does not understand how people spoke back then. There are many different ways one line could be take. This is exactly the desire of ideologists, in Mark Lilla’s article “Our Illegible Age” which talks about exactly that point. He states that the people of now don’t know half the vocabulary people of the past knew, he then proceeds to explain that ideologists use this to benefit them by saying, “Ideology tries to master the historical forces shaping society by first understanding them,” (Lilla). The government makes the words of the Constitution fit their needs by whatever needs necessary. Since it comes from a historical document, the American people believe their point is sound and agree with them fully. Even when it comes to something