Заметки алкоголика и придурка
25. Maijs 2020
01:21
20:01 - not so subtle differences
If you read the Authoritarian Personality, it's the very notion of authority that they hate, hence, for instance, why they despise fatherhood and are obsessed with destroying the traditional family order, which is "patriarchal" and "authoritarian" in it's very essence.
Meanwhile, they don't see their own tyranny as authoritarian, because you are not forcing anyone if they swear loyalty to you spontaneously, even if the only reason they are doing that is that you brainwashed them into it. We see that in 1984, where the party wasn't happy unless you actually, genuinely believed. It wasn't enough to obey out of fear, they had to make sure you were genuinely convinced.