Cult of personality

30.August 2017 Andrei Ivanji

Gods among us

Not everyone can be a leader. Monuments are not built for everyone during their lifetime, cities and streets are named after them. Not every head of state or government aspires to be worshiped by the masses, to have songs written for him, to have ministers obey him without question, to be sinless, to be a deity. These are people of a special kind. They have one thing in common regardless of their ideology: they are all covert or open dictators and build a cult of personality so that they can rule unhindered and for life.