Just a little curiosity here.
As the world changes, and definitely not for the better, I often find myself asking “what is the easiest way to restore stability?” Global warming caused by both citizens and corporations not giving a ****, people and companies like Bill Gates, Tim Horton’s, or Valve (the video game company) abusing the free markets for their explicit monopolization, so called activists intentionally attempting to trample on other peoples rights while crying about their own, and especially an economy which suffers a devastating recession approximately every seven to thirteen years. The list goes on and on.
Of course everybody says “we just need more freedom”, but do we really? I mean, the government never steps in to man handle the economy back together no matter how desperate the situation is because we are free to choose where we work, if we work at all. When all the major oligopolies were collapsing and entire cities worth of people were losing their jobs through no fault of their own our government refused to change the structure to adapt and survive. A totalitarian government, ideologically driven to perpetuate a stable economy, would go through great lengths to maintain civil order and economic growth… or at least stability. The police, always accused of brutality whenever the most minor of protests begins, are actually told NOT to attack groups such as the hells angels, scientology, and the KKK even though the entire planet knows they are guilty of all the most horrible crimes. The police could (and probably should) have just shot Carla Homolka but they didn’t.
But say a realistic and practical totalitarian political party with ideals based on what we hold dear in the present reality presents itself and somehow gathers enough power to actually do something. Would you be able to support them when they attempt fixing the economy by simply saying “inflation doesn’t exist” and they hard mark all prices at a fixed number (bread, for example, will forever cost $2.00). When they ship all the organized crime groups off to their secret prisons would you complain at all? How about when they force an employer to give you a job you wanted because everyone should have the right to employment. Would you side with them or defend the employers right to hire who he/she wishes?
Now I know everyone just defaults to hating totalitarianism and to explain why people feel that way would require a full essay of its own. But it has worked well in the past (and most of what we do know about cold war era ones is based on what our own media told us. Not that reliable of information is it?) Remember, one of the goals of totalitarianism is to attempt to enforce a preconceived idea of utopia. If this government were founded in, say, Canada, it is certain that they wouldn’t want freedom of association to disappear.
So I ask, if a totalitarian regime could present answers to our worlds problems would you be able to consider and maybe accept them?
No delusions of illogically and impractically random and omnipresent oppression please. This is a serious question asking for serious consideration. Yes we are all concerned about Big Brother but we all know how absurd that kind of depiction of totalitarianism is. It’s called fiction for a reason.