Although paradoxical, there is nothing more vulnerable than the power and that because, ultimately, means nothing. You may abuse, be cruel, and awaken the worst in those who believe that it has (this "hold power" is a tautology, nonsense), but I then also its weakness. Nothing more than a false belief as well, powerful for the duration (again a tautology), but that nothing in the air when it ceases to fascinate, not afraid, or ceases its necessity.
We've seen this week following what happens in North Africa. Curiously, nothing very spectacular or dramatic in conventional terms: no armed assault on the palace by angry mobs (the model "revolutionary" Jacobin and Bolshevik) no coup by military junta (the model gorilla Latin America), not a shock with a religious background or pseudo-religious (the variables "messianic" Iran and China). Similar, perhaps, the collapse of ex-Soviet countries, though the comparison is very premature.
is that what was surprised this time has been the weakness of what the day before seemed so formidable, to be revealed pathetic, comical even. Apocryphal or not, the mere fact that it was said that Mubarak and Ben Ali fell ill ("coma") after he had to leave power, confirming the famous axiom of Giulio Andreotti: "Power wears out, especially when you have." And best proof there is that the alleged brutality of Ben Ali's wife to her husband. What to board the plane heading into exile, he said "Go up, you idiot! All my life I will have to endure your stupidity!" Led to a sharp anonymous blogger to qualify the story of "animal abuse."
The pathos was also heartless. Gaddafi ordered bombing its people beyond all imaginable limits. The terror here even pretends to be a means of power is simply the demonstration extreme despair. Or I am the Supreme in power and absolute power (again the repeated ad absurdum), or anyone: that is the message.
Just look at the photos of Muammar Gaddafi, over its 41 years of power! to realize that even the label of dictator is not entirely appropriate. The Romans considered magistrates to dictatorships give it at least an end date. Even stretching the concept, Napoleon, Juan Manuel de Rosas, Stalin, Franco, Pinochet, all of them are modern incarnations of the idea of \u200b\u200bdictatorship. Mubarak, perhaps, so was, but definitely Gaddafi and his cynical degradation fit into another type, which the ancients defined very well and called tyranny. Not in the sense of a "government" but of an abuse, a passion that pulls the understanding and exercises total control over the will, and others. That is why dictatorships tend to prosecute them politically, the tyrannies while only enough moral conviction.
's not pathetic, I fear, as censor lately. Just yesterday the Swiss government, a move that seemed more country risk rating censorship, ordered the cancellation of any bank accounts Libyan leader in his country. It did very Swiss: only yesterday found out.
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