[Tyranny] becomes superfluous when people no longer need the external force of the tyrant to make them… — Slavoj Žižek
[Tyranny] becomes superfluous when people no longer need the external force of the tyrant to make them renounce their particular interests, but when they become "universal citizens" by directly identifying the core of their being with this universality - in short, people no longer need the external master when they are educated into doing the job of discipline and subordination themselves.
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