Honestly, I think just like now, I'm not going to like it, but I'll avoid doing anything that might cause me to be arrested.
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2025
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Great question. I have had a similar thought myself once, wondering if evolution extends across the multiverse.
Since I grew up feeling like I was in an authoritarian government since I was a child (anarchist age 50, USA), I’m going to guess I come out that way in an even more overt authoritarian government 🤣
Nature vs. Nurture is always a bit of column A and a bit of column B.
But you haven’t provided enough information.
What’s the government like other than being authoritarian? It’s possible to have a benevolent authoritarian government. Does it successfully provide food, shelter, and entertainment for the people? Imperial Rome was authoritarian but life for a Roman citizen was probably better than life for some of the ‘barbarians’ at the gates.
How does the government react to challenges to its authority? Fair and proportionally or brutally?
How do those around me, as I grow up, react to the government. Is it mostly fear and anger or contentment and acceptance?
What kind of government? Am I born into a group that benefits from whatever the government is doing?
There is always a group of people that benefits from a government. Authoritarian governments that tends to be much less than the 50% required to win an election.
I am much more likely to support a government that does not see me as a questionable element and potentially an enemy of the state.
Adding more to this
If i am not in that group, what about their corruption, paperwork and law enforce?
Example of enviroment Why this 2km road contrucstion stop working? How long does it take to get my id? My neighbor have loud noise everyday?
Living under an authoritarian government now in the UK I’d like to think I’d be just as anti-government then as I am now.