If you want some real slop, then look at Hannah Arendts “What is Authority”. I just reread it and I had forgotten how much she sucks. Some bangers: America was founded without violence Colonisation was peaceful Rome wasn’t a dictatorship Authoritarianism is a pyramid, totalitarianism is an onion Rome got authority from ancestors, we get it from law (stalin is the man in the onion) Greece had no concept of authority The slavery doesn’t count, that’s prepolitical because they had to have them All countries are authoritarian (which is good actually)