It is dangerous if people think of our liberal democracy as a baseline condition of society, its administration as bad as it gets. Our society is a complex clockwork, much easier to destroy than to fix. The baseline condition is civil war.
Totalitarian states are incentivized to keep you productive and aligned. (Even if they might do a poor job, and may use terror for alignment.) But civil war means that there is no food production, no way to build homes and infrastructure.
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Religious totalitarianism was the default for humanity since we formed agrarian societies. Totalitarianism is what got us here. The death tolls of totalitarianism are the flip side of forming arbitrarily large economic entities with full top-down control.
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