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Originally Posted by rubber soul
I'm not sure I necessarily agree that Caesar (and his successors) was all that benevolent given the history of the Roman Coliseum and all. When I think of "benevolent dictators" the first name to come to mind is Yugoslavia's Tito and, after talking to a Croatian friend whose parents lived under his rule, maybe he wasn't such a sweetie either.
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i think i took it more as a hypothetical... I didn't have a specific dictator in mind but in principle if you had the powers of a dictatorship and you used them to pursue let's say a goal we can agree is benevolent... I would favor that over a well meaning but incompetent democracy.
I probably would favor the style of rule of someone like caesar Augustus over let's say joe Biden. Obviously the reason i recognize dictatorship isn't worth it is because it's only one incompetent or evil successor away from being a nightmare scenario. But i do think we vastly overate democracy. Because it's part of our perceived identity and national origins story. And so we have an almost religious like reverence for it.