Definition Essay: Tyranny In Our Society

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Tyranny is defined as: "cruel, unreasonable, or arbitrary use of power or control". Tyranny is something spoon fed to us our society. We are told we need to act certain ways, like certain things, and to accept these ethics as common knowledge. We are forced to accept these "truths" without question. Then again, if you follow something blindly, is that really tyranny? Well it's important to take a few factors to thought, society works like a machine, some people are the motors who get down and gritty to get things moving, then they move the big cogs, and those power the small cogs, and then the even smaller ones, until the cogs are so small that the precision is as fine as it needs to be. In a machine, for each cog to be different makes maintenance