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VOL. 9, NO. 3, PGS. 15–23

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The Only Game in Town?
How The New Despotism Is Winning Hearts, Minds, and Democracies
John Keane

John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney. His most recent book is Thinking About Democracy in Turbulent Times (2025).

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Amidst the gathering global turbulence triggered by today’s imperial power rivalries, wars, mental confusion, and widening political divisions, a sinister trend is gaining traction everywhere and seemingly getting the upper hand: a new kind of despotism with thoroughly twenty-first-century characteristics is on the rise.

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uriarte
16/05/2025

Translation:

The new despotism seeks to turn the citizen into a hamster that runs endlessly on a wheel and, after a period of exercise, is rewarded with feed that he himself has harvested — and what's more, he'll be happy about it.

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