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One person's opinion, enforced as physics.
means A ruler who holds total power alone, answerable to no one else.
from From Greek autokrates — autos 'self' plus kratos 'power, strength.' It named a ruler whose power is self-derived, not granted by others — power that answers only to itself. The word entered English in the early 1800s, with 'autocracy' following close behind, both riding the era's growing suspicion of rulers who governed by sheer personal will rather than law.
- etymology
- greek for self-rule, as in no one else's
- feedback loop
- yes-men replace advisors within one term
- term limits
- self-imposed, therefore imaginary
- succession plan
- usually a cousin or a coffin