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All dictators eventually get their comeuppance

Jun 25, 2013 Letters

 

Dear Editor,
I read the recent column about psychology and invincibility. Interesting. I liked the phrase ‘The psychology of dictatorship empowers autocratic leaders to think of invincibility’.  As Lord Acton said over a hundred years ago “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”
As true today as it was then. I can support that statement, but all dictators eventually get their comeuppance. While in the workforce in London, I saw it close up and experienced it in a personal way. Colleagues were reluctant to complain or take their grievances to a higher level, because supervisors “could always hit back”: instead they left their cushy jobs.
In my case, placement officers decided to ignore staff rules and indeed the law of the land and did their own thing. When I decided to ‘walk’, the circumstances were investigated; the bubble burst, disciplinary action followed, and those involved lost their jobs – in the Government Service!  In the Department, I had built up a reputation for reliability, so that stood me in good stead – wherever they worked, Guyanese were known for their industriousness.
Since everything happens for a purpose, staff rules were enhanced and practices put in place to ensure that there was no repeat of that unhappy period.
Stay cool. As the Bard says (Hamlet): “There’s a divinity that shapes our ends ……” The world is in for a period of revolution and every dictatorship is vulnerable.
Geralda Dennison

 

 

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