“What you’re dealing with now is not a communist or not fascist authoritarianism. It is the emergence, I think, of technocratic totalitarianism.”
I’ve heard this argument before and it has some merit. But what is new is the methodology they want to use to implement authoritarianism, not the ideology driving it. Communism and fascism are ideologies, not methodologies, so this is an apples to oranges comparison.
You could have both a Communist technocratic authoritarianism (like China) or a Fascist technocratic authoritarianism (like Europe/US is heading towards). The underlying goals and psychological forces driving it still come from the same old ideologies though, and you won’t stop it by attacking the methodology, any more than you stop an addict by taking away one method of them getting high. They’ll just find another method as long as their goals are the same and the motivation is there.
The underlying goals and psychological forces driving it still come from the same old ideologies though,<<
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”
― Alexander Fraser Tytler
It’s social media, like twit and tictoc, fakebook. They are awful for humanity. Almost evil.
China (and the CIA psychology branches?) recognized it early on, and use it for mass manipulation. To great effect.
It’s a craziness amplifier and spreader.