Except, Kozmik, that Stalin was one of the best-known people in the world when he was alive, and still is today. You’re arguing that the Anarch is able to keep everyone in fear of him and yet somehow be completely invisible.
You could have saved a lot of time by revealing the Anarch to be Sauron earlier. Everybody knows about him though. Hard to miss the big flaming eye.
The Rings of Power, obviously.
And Sauron is Mr. Sender.
Let me put it this way: The Anarch would deliberately have the Pantocrator denouce The Anarch.
Gibberish. Are you incapable of answering a question without gibberish or recusive tautology?
Stalin was a man with the power to, in the middle of a peaceful meeting, point to a person and say, “Take this man outside and have him shot”. And everyone in the meeting would sit and wait while the offending person was frogmarched outside and a bullet was put into his brain.
What was the source of Stalin’s power? Why did the soldiers do as Stalin ordered? Why didn’t the other people at the meeting object? Why didn’t one of the soldiers take his gun and shoot Stalin in the brain instead? Why didn’t they lead Stalin to a nice quiet room where only mental health specialists and orderlies listened to his rantings and ravings?
I guarantee you that nobody in the world would call up Stalin, give him a few terse orders, after which Stalin would turn pale and quickly move to carry out those orders. What would happen to Stalin if Stalin, instead of following orders from his shadowy masters, ordered his soldiers to go to the secret headquarters of those shadowy masters, and drag them outside in the snow and put a bullet in each of their brains? What possible power could these shadowy figures have that Stalin did not have?
Even if Stalin himself knew of the powers of the Illuminati, I assume that common soldiers did not. And so, when the soldier gets the order to shoot Comrade So-and-so, the soldier does not stop to think, “Wait, I cannot kill an Illuminatus!” Instead, he obeys orders, and drags the Illuminatus outside and the Illuminatus dies like every other man.
That is exactly how the Anarch’s tautology would work, using the Tao of Politics. See? You agree with Kosmik.
As far as I can tell, it involves the ability to count to 192.
Your answer is meaningless. Let me explain how you should answer:
“The Anarch can compel the leaders of the world to do his bidding by means of --------------------------”
In the blank, insert your answer.
Here are some examples of other life situations which can offer as inspiration for your answer:
“The boss can compel the staff in his office to do his bidding by means of cutting their pay if they don’t do so.”
“The teacher can compel his pupils to behave by means of putting them in detention.”
“The Army officer can command his soldiers by using military law and the penal code to discipline them”.
“The policeman can compel a citizen to obey orders by means of his lawfully designated power to arrest in certain circumstances.”
See what these all are? Situations with clearly defined means by which the person in authority can compel others. Now. What does this Anarch have?
I know you’re kinda busy, Kozmik, but I’d be much obliged if you could find the time to answer the questions in my last post. Thanks in advance! 
Other than the power to kill (or fire) people at his meetings, what other power did Stalin have?
He had formal powers designated through the Constitution of the Soviet Union and delegated upon him by the Supreme Soviet and the Praesidium. The USSR was undemocratic but Stalin was careful to veil his tyranny in populist trappings. He could hire, fire and execute by virtue of the formal powers he had accrued through his allies, and the terror he could produce through his reputation.
He was a famous and infamous man.
It’s not that there was a law that gave Stalin the right to have people killed. It’s that when Stalin gave orders to have someone dragged out into the snow and shot in the head, soldiers would leap to obey those orders. Whatever orders Stalin gave, people would obey, and if they didn’t obey, Stalin would order other people to do horrible things to the disobeying person, and those other people would obey. And they obeyed the orders to do horrible things because they didn’t want horrible things to happen to them.
Stalin’s power existed only in the minds of his underlings. He didn’t rule Soviet Russia through magic, or a miraculous or near-miraculous grasp of human psychology. He ruled Russia because when he gave orders people obeyed those orders for reasons that seemed good to them.
And this would have been impossible if everyone in the USSR didn’t know who Stalin was. He was Stalin. His face was posted on the side of a million buildings. He was the most famous person in the country, and everyone knew what happened to people who disobeyed him. In many ways, this very lack of anonymity was the source of his power.
Couldn’t anonymity be the source of someone’s power?
Grasp of human psychology and propaganda would work wonders in the right environment. Orwell is often used as a baseline; for example, “Big Brother is watching you.” I came up with something more horrifying if you really think about it; bumper stickers, for example -
That would work great, except that it would be on a car, and thus you know whoever owns the car is probably in on the joke.
Yea Kozmik, even Big Brother, anonymous as he was, was extremely notorious. It was his omnipresence and omnipotence as known to the people of Oceania that made people obey.
I find the concept of “Obey, or an anonymous person or personages will interfere in your life in ways indistinguishable from happenstance” to be a less than compelling basis for obedience or fealty.
Not really, no. How would you wield power completely anonymously?
Not if its on taxis, limos, ZipCars, Google Cars, Volkswagen beetles, Mercedes…
Besides the organization, the G-192, ect. - there is the ideology. More to the point: the ideologies. Because at the highest level, it is beyond democracy, anarchy (in the other sense), fascism, communism, monarchism, capitalism, corporatism, theocracy – it has a hand, an unseen hand, into each and every one of these ideologies and others.
For the Anarch, who wields power completely anonymously, is beyond organization and beyond ideology. Look at it this way, the President of the United States has to deal with just two factions: Republican and Democrat; the Anarch has to deal with factions upon factions. The Anarch has to ensure that this movement fails, that that civil war sets off such and such crisis, that this other movement only seems to fail, that this economic problem is related to that military conflict - all this while making it appear that no one is causing it all, that no one is behind it all.
The Anarch would cause World War I with the end of the Cold War in mind.