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If they're talking about mass surveillance and intrusive government, they're describing something authoritarian but not necessarily Orwellian.
Adorno used to say, "Intolerance of ambiguity is the sign of an authoritarian personality."
He joined the Communist Party when black American’s civil rights were one of its priorities, but soon became disillusioned by the party’s authoritarian leanings and left.
We need a digital economy where our data and our attention is not for sale to the highest-bidding authoritarian or demagogue.
After more than 40 years of authoritarian rule, it's not a place where political engagement by women and young people is possible, nor encouraged.
The country was ruled by an authoritarian government and engaged in bribery and embezzlement.
As the country grew prosperous, it was able to transition from an authoritarian government to a democratic government and has been able to reinvest in building its institutions.
This could never have happened decades ago when the country was poor and ruled by an authoritarian government.
Over time, his increasingly authoritarian policies lost support, and his opponents to the south gained strength.
But eventually, these authoritarian ideals bleed over and affect citizens as well.
We have to cure ourselves of the notion that we are authoritarian, that we can determine everything that happens.
We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.
So that's why I've always been fascinated with how technology could actually reshape and open up authoritarian societies like ours.
And this actually fits with another interesting theory about what's happening in authoritarian states and in their cyberspace.
This is what political scientists call authoritarian deliberation, and it happens when governments are actually reaching out to their critics and letting them engage with each other online.
I'll just give you a very short list of reasons why authoritarian deliberation may actually help the dictators.
And finally, the purpose of any authoritarian deliberation efforts is usually to increase the legitimacy of the regimes, both at home and abroad.
They may have become slower, but the activists could still access it and actually argue that having access to them is actually great for many authoritarian states.
Because even what has been happening up 'til now with the Spinternet and authoritarian deliberation, there is a great chance that those voices will not be heard.
And I believe we won't overcome the despair that authoritarian politicians prey upon if our systems stay rigged.
On the other hand, Chaney is (surprisingly enough) the laid-back but knowing authoritarian figure and Strode is a native police official.
Kelly plays his usual caring authoritarian role while Silvers provides plenty of self-deprecation and laughs.
What is there to say about an anti-establishment film that was produced in a time of such colourless void, social indifference and authoritarian contentment.
An unapologetically left leaning anti authoritarian abuse fest, the escapades at first appear to be so over the top militaristic and sickening that it could come off as some distant fantastical dystopian alternate history, one Harry Turtledove would even enjoy.
However, expect a double dose of the overworked situations of an authoritarian parent and the child who suffers.
But that is a real change in that kind of horror films : to take a point of view that focuses onto a boy, his desires, his fears, and his anxiety, all of it emphasized by a castrating authoritarian father and a loving, maybe too much, mother.
I downloaded the real Anarchist Cookbook from a BBS, bulletin board system (Pre-internet "websites") when I was in my teens; and let me tell you one thing - there is nothing anarchistic in this script, he rips off a "Chic-filet" style joint in the beginning - like that takes a lack of authoritarian fear.
"La lotta continua" (class struggle), authoritarian schooling in ruling class values, the small percentage of youths of poor families in university--sure, that's so passé.
Guinness is the Cardinal, a cold, authoritarian leader of the church against the state.
I am an ex-teacher who always had a good relationship with the kids I taught (though not as authoritarian as the Miss Dove of the title.
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