Imagine a control freak who has to butt into every aspect of your life and wont leave you the fuck alone.
Now imagine said prick has total control of the government.
China style social credit system being implemented in U.S. universities
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Imagine a control freak who has to butt into every aspect of your life and wont leave you the fuck alone.
Now imagine said prick has total control of the government.
Arch Dornan
Oh, lovely. They've sent me a mo-ron.
Lois from Malcolm In the Middle as president?
In the movie Tron Legacy, Flynn builds a new computer world, and creates an AI copy of himself called CLU, with whom he plans to "create a perfect system".
CLU then goes and sets up a totalitarian police-state in which everyone is either conscripted into the military or killed off in combat games. Which was not at all what Flynn had wanted.
But the problem is that computers don't do what you want, they do what you tell them to.
What does "create a perfect system" mean, when applied to human politics? It means something like: "have a plan in your head for how society should be, and then try to make the external world be exactly like your plan."
CLU then goes and sets up a totalitarian police-state in which everyone is either conscripted into the military or killed off in combat games. Which was not at all what Flynn had wanted.
But the problem is that computers don't do what you want, they do what you tell them to.
What does "create a perfect system" mean, when applied to human politics? It means something like: "have a plan in your head for how society should be, and then try to make the external world be exactly like your plan."
Arch Dornan
Oh, lovely. They've sent me a mo-ron.
I expressed such ideas for a society simulator.
It would be quite fun if it does happen a very life like simulator of any policy desired in society.
An important point about Totalitarianism is that such a mindset is intrinsically hostile to religious freedom - or even to any real spirituality at all!
Take the case of the Atheist Totalitarian - the kind of person one occasionally finds online, who says that if he had control of a government he would ban all "religion". The kind of control-freak whose big power-fantasy would be a world where any hint of belief in God or any other higher power would be diagnosed as a mental disorder and get you arrested and subjected to psychiatric treatment, or put up against a wall and shot. Or both.
The Communist countries probably come the closest to this, but even they seldom go all the way.
On the other hand, consider the religious Totalitarian: the person who believes sincerely, and wants to use government to enforce that same belief on everyone. All other religious banned, mandatory attendance at services of the Official State Religion, no private religious meetings or discussion permitted. Any hint of questioning or disagreement treated as the worst possible crime.
But does such a person really "believe sincerely" - or is it really all just about power?
The Atheist Totalitarian will want to make it illegal to pray. So, in practice, will the religious totalitarian!
Superficially, prayers would be compulsory. But they would be scripted prayers, worship set according to a strict verbal formula, from which it would be a crime to deviate at all.
Talking honestly to God in your own words, telling Him what is in your heart? That's forbidden!
Both forms of Totalitarianism contain a drive to reduce other people to NPC status, denying them any individuality. But the religious Totalitarian commits this wrongdoing in a manner that is more blatant and "before the LORD".
Take the case of the Atheist Totalitarian - the kind of person one occasionally finds online, who says that if he had control of a government he would ban all "religion". The kind of control-freak whose big power-fantasy would be a world where any hint of belief in God or any other higher power would be diagnosed as a mental disorder and get you arrested and subjected to psychiatric treatment, or put up against a wall and shot. Or both.
The Communist countries probably come the closest to this, but even they seldom go all the way.
On the other hand, consider the religious Totalitarian: the person who believes sincerely, and wants to use government to enforce that same belief on everyone. All other religious banned, mandatory attendance at services of the Official State Religion, no private religious meetings or discussion permitted. Any hint of questioning or disagreement treated as the worst possible crime.
But does such a person really "believe sincerely" - or is it really all just about power?
The Atheist Totalitarian will want to make it illegal to pray. So, in practice, will the religious totalitarian!
Superficially, prayers would be compulsory. But they would be scripted prayers, worship set according to a strict verbal formula, from which it would be a crime to deviate at all.
Talking honestly to God in your own words, telling Him what is in your heart? That's forbidden!
Both forms of Totalitarianism contain a drive to reduce other people to NPC status, denying them any individuality. But the religious Totalitarian commits this wrongdoing in a manner that is more blatant and "before the LORD".
Which they are on the hook to pay back no matter what. They have no protection through bankruptcy, and if they don't pay for whatever reason, they get SWATed.