What does #totalitarianism really look like?

Most people will think of the USSR, Nazi Germany or North Korea. The kind of brutal regimes that inspired George Orwell's ‘1984’.

But another novel, ‘Brave New World’, written by Aldous Huxley many years before in 1932, foreshadowed a different kind of dystopia. A scientific dictatorship in which people blindly follow authority and actually love their servitude.

Like in the USSR, where dissenters were classed as mentally disturbed, today any dissenter is branded a conspiracy theorist. Their opinions are pathologies, not legitimate points of view to be taken seriously, about our de facto police state,

or about the threat of coronavirus, or the damage done to our economy & our health by lockdown.
Instead, we are dangerous heretics that deserve to be jeered at & pushed out of our society, while the rest don their masks & applaud the police for cracking down on non-conformists.

This is the bare-faced hypocrisy of totalitarianism.
It uses the media to condemn & marginalise genuinely concerned citizens in the hope that the shame will send the scurrying to the shadows.
Well......
I ain't about to do that.
ARE YOU?