thanks for your insight.

i think whatever the supposed political system or its supposed values, most members of the ruling class (or aspirants) fantasize a set-up like this: they get to live as aristocrats with the rest of us becoming some species of servant, dependent upon them for food/housing, always pledging loyalty to stay in their good graces.

and Soviet America is a new spin on this, as most us live pretty safe lives and are stuffed with excess calories, entertained by all our devices and machines, while a combination of state surveillance and constant propaganda gradually shrinks civil society and locks in a rigid hierarchy that is veiled behind a smokescreen of spurious race&gender egalitarianism.

Soviet America, I think, only seems odd or coercive to those of us raised in the 20th century, for the screen addicts raised in this century, being programmed and policed by their devices seems natural and normal, as this is all they've ever known.

cheers!