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Humor: The Secret Weapon
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LIFE
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1 / 1986 |
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Barry Farber
Barry Farber is the host of a radio talk show for WMCA in New
York and has done extensive writing for national magazines and
newspapers. |
You don't need a training course for dictators any more than you need seeds for weeds.
If, however, there ever were something like an Attila-the-Hun Military Academy to make sure young generalissimos, caudillos, party secretaries, and leaders-maximo mastered all the finer points of subjugating others, it's easy to predict what they'd teach before lunch on the very first day.
They'd teach whom to knock off first when they take over. Who'd like to guess?
"Opposition leaders?"
Any dictator who gives that answer deserves to be demoted back down to young, ambitious colonel. Opposition leaders come fourth!
How about all those loud-mouth artists, authors, poets, and intellectuals? Now you're talking. They come third!
Second in line for obliteration are all your pure-hearted idealistic allies who will turn against you as soon as they realize you didn't really mean all those rosy proclamations about justice and freedom that inspired them to risk their lives to help you defeat the previous dictator.
First and foremost on every wise dictator's hit list comes the comedian, the funnyman who with one little jab can expose your evil, your lies, your cruelty, and your ego and have everybody laughing at you behind your back.
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