Most people imagine that the most nightmarish governments are authoritarian ones where the state endeavors to monitor your every move, threatens to fine, arrest, or even execute you for resisting.
But there is a much worse hell on Earth, one where the government doesn’t even attempt to monitor you or bother to threaten you with penalties or physical coercion because nearly every civilian is loudly and proudly berating and demeaning anyone showing insufficient zeal for the righteous movement.
No sharp tips or bullets needed. But coercion it is, yet infinitely easier for the masses to convince themselves that they have engaged in no coercion, and that freedom still reigns.
This is why the great horror of totalitarianism can be so invisible to so many.
markchangizi / Mark Changizi
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