Westerners who spend their entire lives working, shopping, consuming, reading, viewing, voting, behaving, speaking and thinking exactly as the powerful want them to sometimes voice concerns that their society might be in danger of someday slipping into a totalitarian dystopia.
If you spend a lot of time worrying that we are sliding into dystopia, it's because you haven't looked closely enough at our present situation.
If you think we're not yet in a totalitarian dystopia, tell me what it is the powerful want but don't yet have? An entire civilization dedicated to profiting them and serving their interests? Collective mind control? Ownership of all political parties? They have all those things.
The uncomfortable reality is that our entire civilization is set up to benefit a few powerful people, and we think it's normal because we have been conditioned to think that. We are trained monkeys dancing their owner's dance while telling each other fairy tales about being free.
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