Eat Or Be Eaten

If the world is jungle-like for an individual, then the authoritarian is perfectly justified in all his suspicions (and) hostilities. Once we understand this point, matters look very different. And among the chief characteristics of authoritarians that Maslow identified was the embrace of power, and “especially when challenged, to use it in a hard, cruel or even sadistic fashion.” Putin’s decisions in the past month certainly fit this pattern.