The new kind is the new generation of the police state. The rapid progress in technology has made it possible to collect information about individual citizens in a scale and in details impossible before. At the same time, the individuals working with this are recruited outside democracy and often working outside all meaningful democratic control.
It seems that "progress" is running amok, and there are no natural breaks.The normal democratic control coming from citizens is annulled, as police and security work is secret for the general public. The political control is also annulled, as there is no strong public demand for stricter rules, and the politicians themselves are already in the net of the security forces.
A politician who challenges the new police power will be discredited personally or by family, or by economy, or by any other means - there are some strange things in the files about everyone, and if there is none it can be provoked in a few seconds. Everything is in the files, and the methods of provocation gets more sophisticated for every month.
The idea of total control is non democratic in itself. It implies that "I" am better than the rest to decide what is best. We all have that feeling. So far no one has had the means to impose it, but the means are getting better and better.
According to the dialectic principle, every thesis will turn into its anti-thesis. So the thesis of today - democracy - will turn into its opposite - non-democracy - in some form soon enough. If the anti-thesis turns out to be a new police state it will be sad.
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