“The key to absolute control is to convince the people to grant you emergency powers to deal with a crisis. To retain the emergency powers, you simply create new crises as and when needed.”
-Otto von Bismarck, 1883.
He was speaking to the Japanese ambassador to Japan at the time, older brother of the father of Emperor Hirohito (1901-89). I’ve often wondered if he told his nephew about that conversation.
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It’s bad alright, but not unintentional, and there will never be synthesis.
Or the Bismarck Method;
“The key to absolute control is to convince the people to grant you emergency powers to deal with a crisis. To retain the emergency powers, you simply create new crises as and when needed.”
-Otto von Bismarck, 1883.
He was speaking to the Japanese ambassador to Japan at the time, older brother of the father of Emperor Hirohito (1901-89). I’ve often wondered if he told his nephew about that conversation.
clear ether
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