你喜歡獨裁國家的什麼？
生活在獨裁國家的十大事情與蘇聯這樣的極權國家大致相同：
- 你不對你的國家發生的事情負責。你的孩子不會問你，「你們怎麼允許這些白痴毀掉我們的醫療保健/教育/國防？「你的良心是純潔的。
- 您將大量的時間和精力花在民事活動和為您的利益而奮鬥。為什麼中國在如此短的時間內變得如此強大和富裕？因為他們忙著賺錢，而不是上街集會，或互相喊口號。
- 如果政權變得鎮壓，你可以採取一些不錯的職業行動來告密你的同事和鄰居，而不做其他事情。
- 吵鬧的少數民族、流浪漢和乞討者從街道上消失，這明顯改善了城市環境。
- 警察暴力和腐敗永遠從你的視野中消失。有效的訂單維護取而代之。
- 權力走廊更加穩定。這使得建立關係變得更加可預測。你知道你想和誰交朋友，以及如何做。
- 政治正確的枷鎖消失了。你的統治者、老闆和警察是你唯一可能冒犯的人——而且你總是知道他們喜歡聽什麼，不喜歡聽什麼。
- 媒體新聞流顯著改善。你不再看到有關政府犯罪、墮落、無能和腐敗、基礎設施和社會服務惡化的令人沮喪的新聞。所有這一切都轉移到了其他國家。將會有很多很多的好消息和幸福的面孔。
- 你的最高統治者將是所有人中意志最堅定、最明智、最仁慈的人，這與統治其他國家的白痴形成鮮明對比。沒有什麼可以比得上這會給您和周圍的每個人帶來的方向感和確定性。
- 你們國家的歷史將會從根本上改善。人們會發現你過去的偉大的新的輝煌例子，並為你的國家的敵人試圖騷擾你的事情找到很好的解釋。
下面的蘇聯海報說明了成為獨裁或極權主義計畫一部分的最大優勢之一。無論結果如何，沒有人可以讓你個人對結果負責。這一切要不是巨大的集體努力，就是某個高層命令你做你正在做的事情。
上面的文字是：「所有誠實的人，加入我們吧！這是一首流行的蘇聯進行曲《世界民主青年讚歌》中的一句歌詞”，1947 年為支持希臘的共產主義叛亂分子而寫的。
一名長相斯拉夫人的蘇聯男子比遊行隊伍中的其他人高一點。一個美麗的女孩，懷著熱情的心，捧著康乃馨，向前走去，離他很近。這一點，以及他舉著寫著「和平」的橫幅的事實。民主、社會主義”，人群中誰定義了“誠實”的含義。
在美國，混亂是我們的優勢。自由企業擁抱必要的混亂，讓個人和整個國家朝著最終造福所有人的方向迅速前進。
美國傳統字典對自由企業的描述如下：
自由企業
- 私人企業可以在政府監管最少的情況下自由地以盈利為目的進行競爭性經營。
- 生產資料主要為私有製、主要依靠市場力量配置商品和資源並確定價格、政府對經濟決策的干預最少的經濟體系；此外，也提倡將這種制度作為一個國家的經濟制度的政治學說。
類似：市場經濟自由放任經濟
與國家主義資本主義不同，自由市場資本主義沒有像國家主義資本主義那樣強加的有組織的形狀或設計，後者透過官僚機構輸送幾乎所有的互動。
下圖描述了直觀想像自由企業的好方法。
連接路徑無限制地相互連接。連接路徑可以隨時向任何方向改變。他們可能會隨機交叉路徑。明顯缺乏形式和受控方向，因此有“自由”一詞。自由企業是一種只需要合作與和諧就足以解決一系列問題的經濟體系，並且需要一種能夠自給自足、自決和自我負責的文化。沒有底層文化，自由市場就不可能存在。除了文化問題之外，自由企業的問題解決過程僅受供需法則以及其他可能擁有更好方法或產品的問題解決者的競爭的影響。
沒有政府「專家」來規範您如何開展業務、與誰開展業務，或按照什麼條件開展業務。沒有人告訴你你「需要」什麼，而不是你想要什麼。這種自由市場體系雖然罕見，但已被證明能夠比任何其他體系創造更多的財富，以及潛在的和平與繁榮的重要文化。這在很大程度上是由於「監管」公民不需要大量官僚支出的結果。另一個因素是戰爭，無論是生命或財富都代價高昂，不適合需要合作互動的自由市場模式。
我可以看出這對 2023 年的許多美國公民來說真正有吸引力。在我看來，泰特勒的民主循環確實已經追上我們了。
What do you like about an authoritarian state?
The top ten things about living in an authoritarian state are roughly the same as for a totalitarianism like the Soviet Union:
You’re not responsible for what happens to your country. Your kids won’t be asking you, “How did you guys allow these morons to ruin our health care/ education /defense?” Your conscience is pristine.
You spare a lot of time and effort consumed by civil activity and the fight for your interests. Why did China become so strong and wealthy in so short time? Because they were busy making money, not rallying in the streets, or shouting slogans at each other.
If the regime gets repressive, you can make a few good career moves snitching on your colleagues and neighbors, doing little else.
Noisy minorities, bums and panhandlers disappear from the streets, which visibly enhances the urban environment.
Police violence and corruption disappear from your horizon for good. An effective order maintenance takes its place.
There is much more stability in the corridors of power. Which makes relationship-building much more predictable. You know who you want to make friends with, and how to do it.
The yoke of political correctness is gone. Your rulers, your boss, and the police are the only ones who you might offend—and you always know what they like to hear, and what not.
The media news stream radically improves. You stop seeing depressing news about crime, depravity, incompetence and corruption in the government, deterioration of infrastructure and social services. All this moves to other countries. There will be much, much more of good news, and happy faces.
Your supreme ruler will be the most strong-willed, wise and benevolent of all, a stark contrast to the morons who rule other countries. Nothing can compare to the sense of direction and certainty this will impart you and everyone around.
The history of your country will radically improve. People will discover new bright examples of your past greatness, and find good explanation for things that enemies of your nation tried to harass you for.
The Soviet poster below illustrates one of the greatest advantages of being part of an authoritarian or totalitarian project. However it ends, no one can hold you personally responsible for the outcome. It all was either a massive collective effort, or someone on the top just ordered you to do whatever you were doing.
The top text says, “Everyone who’s honest, join us!” This is a line from a popular Soviet march song “The Hymn of the Democratic Youth of the World,” written in support of the Communist insurgents in Greece in 1947.
A Slavic-looking Soviet man is a bit taller than the rest of the procession. A pretty girl who holds a carnation close to her passionate heart, marches forth very close to him. This, and the fact he’s holding the banner saying “Peace. Democracy, Socialism,” say who in the crowd defines what “honesty” means.
In the US, chaos is our strength. Free enterprise embraces the chaos necessary to allow both individual and the nation in general to rapidly advance in a direction that in end, benefits everyone.
The American Heritage dictionary describes free enterprise as follows:
free enterprise
The freedom of private businesses to operate competitively for profit with minimal government regulation.
An economic system having predominantly private ownership of the means of production, and relying chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices, and having a minimum of governmental interference in economic decisions; also, the political doctrine advocating such a system as the economic system of a country.
Similar: market economylaissez-faire economy
Unlike Statist capitalism, free market capitalism has no imposed organized shape or design as does Statist Capitalism, which funnels most all interaction through a bureaucracy.
A good way to visually imagine free enterprise is depicted in this diagram.
The connecting paths are connecting to each other without restriction. The connecting paths can change at any time and in any direction. They may cross paths randomly. There is a noticeable lack of form and controlled direction, hence the term “free”. Free enterprise is an economic system that requires only cooperation and harmony sufficient to result in a series of problem solving, and requires a culture capable of self-sufficiency, self-determination, and self-accountability. Without the underlying culture, free market cannot exist. Beyond cultural issues, the problem solving process of free enterprise is subect only to the laws of supply and demand, and competition from other problem solvers that may have better methods or products.
There are no government “experts” to regulate how and with whom you may do business, or on what terms. There is no one to tell you what you “need”, rather than what you want. This system of free markets, although rare, has been shown to create more wealth, and the underlying all importanat culture of peace and prosperity, than any other system ever created. This is in no small amount the result of having no large bureaucracy expenditure required to “regulate” the citizens. Another factor is wars, expensive in both lives and treasure, do not fit into a model of free markets requiring cooperation and interaction.
You might just write a full answer/post on this
Economics is a pseudoscience predicated on the innate virtuousness of resource maximization, which is often catastrophic. Markets are people making decisions, with no one doing nothing, infinitely many possible decisions for a free market of one, and more possible decisions for a free market of two, with no way of saying how many more than for a market of one or how operations could, would, or should be defined, continuing as the number of decision makers approaches k. Fuzzy decision making and fuzzy optimization, finance (following Fibonacci sequences like agronomy), and industrial psychology are valid subjects, but “economics” is not even a subject.
Lots of words. Very little argument.
I like your style, Dima.
A very dark movie Child 44 depicts life in the USSR in the 50s, no crime and if found was the result of Nazi brainwashing. Excellent cast.
Wow. So nothing would be my fault?
I don't believe that stuff. My wife is a totalitarian and EVERYTHING is my fault!
My experience of freedom — having had the misfortune to be a lifelong resident of the United States, soon to change — is that it means “free-for-all”. We, Russians, do a terrible thing: We send our best, the masters of corruption, to a place where all the corruption is invisible and everyone says there is none. I’m hoping to take Chinese citizenship under Russian nationality. When I hear “freedom”, I instinctively want to dive for cover.
I can see where this would be real attractive to a lot of 2023 US citizens. Sure looks to me like Tytler’s Cycle of Democracy has caught up with us.
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