Then there is the other sort of authoritarian régime.
That is the first type of authoritarian state. Think of Orwell’s 1984, in which the citizens of Airstrip One are little more than fear-driven cogs in a giant, never-ceasing machine of State. There is what most people probably think of, an obdurate, unyielding dictatorship under which people have little or no freedom from the least humiliation and live in constant fear. The Chambers English Dictionary defines the adjective “authoritarian” as “setting authority above liberty.” From Brave New World, we learn that there are, in reality, two sorts of authoritarianism. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited (HarperPerennial, 2004)
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