# We Should Not Fear The Tyrants; The Tyrants Should Fear Us

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Podcast: [JOHNSTONE](https://stenobird.com/podcast/johnstone-939221)
Published: 2026-04-18T14:51:49+00:00
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## Resource

If there were a thousand people living on an island, and one of them began making life miserable for everyone else, there would soon be 999 people living on the island. How strange, then, that a few oligarchs and empire managers get to push around an entire planet full of humans. Reading by Tim Foley.

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