Have you read “Animal Farm” and “1984” before? Their author, George Orwell had some provocative reflects on government politics. He concluded from what he experienced as a colonist officer in Burma that the real motives for which despotic governments act are from the same petty impulses that drive human beings in response to pressures. Both humans and governments act from their self interests. Historically, both despotic and democratic governments will act from the same insular impulses as people’s not only because people create a strong power to push governments but also because governments need to maintain legitimacy in the society by protecting the majority’s benefit. People’s petty impulses which come from their selfishness gather together to push governments. How people respond to …show more content…
Dating back to 399 B.C. in Athens, the city considered as the originate of democracy, assigned the absolute power of judgment to juries at court. Socrates, a great philosopher, was sentenced to death by the votes of the jury, although people considered him as innocent today. The jury, which represented the majority, thought Socrates humiliated the God of Athens. They simply didn’t like Socrates because he had different belief from them. But when there was a proposal to execute Socrates, they immediately echoed only because they didn’t appreciate the diversity. they considered Socrates They considered Socrates as a In this case, the majority’s interest was to protect the rationality of the God of Athens, so they voted to kill Socrates, who represented the minority and had different