Sure. But only for a relative short time. Apathy leads to interhuman relations of high and low. After a time leaders forget that not only their people are dependent from their decisions but that they need their people to be leaders. Then, competition between leaders leads often to war which is the essence of tyranny. Domestic wars, foreign wars. Power is like a drug which produces the need of more power which can only be achieved by supression of the people. The satisfaction of power is the opposite part of the exploitation of those who are granting the power. In other words those who are exploited don't want any power. Because of exhaustion? By those in power?

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