Harold D. Lasswell puts a hand in a jacket pocket and talks about democracy versus despotism. He states that concentration of power, respect, money, and control of information in a few hands fosters despotism. Wider distribution of these things are good for freedom.
This makes sense to this respect: if no one controls an outsized amount of any of these four issues, if they are more evenly distributed, it becomes harder for an individual or small group to impose their wills on others.
To illustrate these thoughts, he uses lots of pictures of Hitler, Himmler, Goering, and Goebbels, as well a swastiskas and that double-cross insignia from Chaplin's THE GREAT DICTATOR.
This makes sense to this respect: if no one controls an outsized amount of any of these four issues, if they are more evenly distributed, it becomes harder for an individual or small group to impose their wills on others.
To illustrate these thoughts, he uses lots of pictures of Hitler, Himmler, Goering, and Goebbels, as well a swastiskas and that double-cross insignia from Chaplin's THE GREAT DICTATOR.
