If you ruled your own country, would you have a personality cult?
-Magdha-
16-12-2005, 03:40
Would you?
Pure Metal
16-12-2005, 03:43
sure why not
Neo Kervoskia
16-12-2005, 03:47
I already have two.
Zatarack
16-12-2005, 03:48
Yes, used also to get recruits for my military which would be the second way of administering my iron-handed rule. Or I'd be a nice guy.
Dishonorable Scum
16-12-2005, 03:54
Good Lord no. Personality cults are too much damned trouble. You always have to appear in public and pretend that you care that people say they love you. The truth is, the people of the Rogue Nation of Dishonorable Scum don't love me, and I don't care.
:p
Neu Leonstein
16-12-2005, 03:56
Yes. Of course I would. Turkmenbashi indeed...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saparmurat_Niyazov#Presidential_decrees
http://www.tomgpalmer.com/images/Turkmenbashi.jpg
Sure why not. I guess it wouldn't too bad.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
16-12-2005, 04:18
Good Lord no. Personality cults are too much damned trouble.
You're just upset cause you haven't got a personality to build a cult around!
And I would most certainly have a personality cult. It couldn't be much worse than the cult devoted me as the reincarnation of Hector Berlioz, that was just brutal.
No. I would be a quiet ruler behind the scenes, enlisting a skilled orator with a whole lot more charisma than me for the job of nominal leader.
I don't make them, they make themselves.
Vashutze
16-12-2005, 04:52
I already made a cult, in school, almost got me suspended for 2 weeks, also. It was called Suas and was bent on world domination, and the school thought it was some racist Nazi cult. Eventually, the administration just gave up, because they didn't have enough information. THey ended up relying on things like, "THAT SOUNDS LIKE A GERMAN NAME", which by the way in itself is racism.
I'd get myself a pliable frontman, and they'd all worship him. That way, if there's a coup d'état or foreign invasion he takes the hit while I plunder the treasury and book it.
The Otways
16-12-2005, 08:34
No way. I would stay in the shadows. But power would be firmly in my hands.
I would even maintain a veneer of democracy, for public consumption. But, whenever a new President gets elected, my Praetorians/Jainissaries/Secret Service would pay a visit to them a few nights later to appraise them of the situation... as well as letting them know in no uncertain terms what would happen if they ever just attempt to breathe a word to the general public.
This would also apply to the wider cabinet.
I might enforce this with some sort of implanted device that will cause a fatal stroke or something if they did try.
EDIT: I should have posted this as my psychotic dictatorship nation... oops! :)
Dishonorable Scum
16-12-2005, 14:13
I'd get myself a pliable frontman, and they'd all worship him. That way, if there's a coup d'état or foreign invasion he takes the hit while I plunder the treasury and book it.
Ah, the Dick Cheney method. A classic! :p
Carnivorous Lickers
16-12-2005, 14:20
Would you?
I dont rule my own country, yet I have a cult following anyway
Kellarly
16-12-2005, 14:25
Yes. Of course I would. Turkmenbashi indeed...
Talk about a mummies boy...
Neu Leonstein
16-12-2005, 14:31
THey ended up relying on things like, "THAT SOUNDS LIKE A GERMAN NAME", which by the way in itself is racism.
That would require "German" to be a race, which it isn't.
It's stupid, but not racist. And besides, it doesn't sound German.
If you ruled your own country, would you have a personality cult?
Why wait?
Areinnye
16-12-2005, 19:29
ofcourse I would... but only because I love those big beautifull paintings and statues...