They want to seduce us with a purposeful mission, but their actions do anything but unite us. Left vs. AI vs. Christians vs. Domestic vs. When we are forced to think in binary terms, we lose. Seeding intolerance is an effective, yet harmful, way to gain more power. Many people disagree though. They see divisions as something normal, nothing to worry about. Maybe public opinion itself has also been distorted by a divide and conquer mentality. Dualism is a dangerous scenario.
Divide-and-conquer leaders want followers; they just care about themselves. Unite-and-build leaders create more leaders; they care about the mission. The former are self-serving, the latter serve something bigger than themselves.
Which one are you? Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Divide and rule from Latin divide et impera , or divide and conquer, in politics and sociology is gaining and maintaining power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into pieces that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy.
Machiavelli advises this act be achieved either by making him suspicious of his men in whom he trusted, or by giving him cause that he has to separate his forces, and, because of this, become weaker. The maxim divide et impera has been attributed to Philip II of Macedon.
It was utilised by the Roman ruler Caesar and the French emperor Napoleon together with the maxim divide ut regnes. The strategy, but not the phrase, applies in many ancient cases: the example of Gabinius exists, parting the Jewish nation into five conventions, reported by Flavius Josephus in Book I, of The Wars of the Jews De bello Judaico. The strategy of division and rule has been attributed to sovereigns, ranging from Louis XI to the Habsburgs. This proverb, Divide and rule, has been rejected, since the root and the summit of authority are confirmed by the consent of the subjects.
Historically, this strategy was used in many different ways by empires seeking to expand their territories. The concept is also mentioned as a strategy for market action in economics to get the most out of the players in a competitive market.
Regardless of how old we are, we never stop learning. Classroom is the educational resource for people of all ages. Based on the Word Net lexical database for the English Language. See disclaimer. Related Articles. Before World War II , they had no intention of devolving power so rapidly, or at all.
The experience of the elected governments in the last years of the British Raj confirmed that the British had never been serious about their proclaimed project of promoting the responsible governance of India by Indians.
They openly helped the Muslim League take advantage of this unexpected opportunity to exercise influence and patronage that their electoral support had not earned them and to build up support while their principal opponents languished in jail. This was all part of the policy of divide and rule, systematically promoting political divisions between Hindus and Muslims, defined as the monolithic communities they had never been before the British. They vowed this would not happen again.
A systematic policy of fomenting separate consciousness among the two communities was launched, with overt British sponsorship. When restricted franchise was grudgingly granted to Indians, the British created separate communal electorates, so that Muslim voters could vote for Muslim candidates for Muslim seats. The seeds of division were sown, to prevent a unified nationalist movement that could overthrow the British. But the devastation of World War II meant that only one-half of the phrase could survive: bled, bombed and battered for six years, Britain could divide, but it could no longer rule.
The British — terrorised by German bombing, demoralised by various defeats and large numbers of their soldiers taken prisoner, shaken by the desertion of Indian soldiers and the mutiny of Indian sailors, shivering in the record cold of the winter of , crippled by power cuts and factory closures resulting from a post-war coal shortage — were exhausted and in no mood to focus on a distant Empire when their own needs at home were so pressing.
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