RCRG
Syndicate
] "Any person perceived as having power over the freedom, success, or income of others, or who has the ability to make others appear ridiculous, incompetent, or weak, must guard against the abuse of psychological size. This concept has special relevance for people in authority positions. The individual who determines careers, decides wages, and makes job assignments has considerable power over others, and this can influence the communication process." (p 148)
"Any form of concentrated power, whatever it is, is not going to want to be subjected to popular democratic control or, for that matter, to market discipline. Powerful sectors, including corporate wealth, are naturally opposed to functioning democracy, just as they're opposed to functioning markets, for themselves, at least. It's just natural. They do not want external constraints on their capacity to make decisions and act freely. It entails that the elites will be extremely undemocratic." (p. 242)
"Sick Ceasars is an account, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, of men transformed, and more often deranged, by absolute power." --from the cover jacket