What actually came next -- one short meagre five year plan later, as it turns out -- among the great achievement of a few centuries' worth of progressive gargle (that indeed weren't worth anything of anyone's time, as prospectively suspected and retrospectively confirmed) was such encroachment of state upon society as never before contemplated.

The notion of "eminent domain", novel in the practice (if not necessarily the courtly theory) of the 1800s (where it strictly applied to economically inconsequential real estate ; the earlier principle of "can't hem in a lord by buying property all around his but an inch wide and then sue for trespass whenever he goes to London" expanded naturally to the needs of the nascent railroads, getting recalcitrant midges out of the way here and there) nevertheless spread like any other rot, reaching by the mid-1900s a point where it applied chiefly to intangibles (and even real estate on the unhinged criteria of "some other guy could give us higher tax receipts, so it's his now"). Then by the 2020s the state simply took over any notion of community whatsoever, and remarkably successfully at that! In precisely the manner contemplated by Mussolini, the problems of the state-society binome were resolved by the wholesale accaparation of the latter by the former!

The average fuckwit, far from even discussing politics (ie, making, re-making and destructing "the government") is instead entirely captured in the everyday busywork of enforcing the government's ownership of everyone else's public sphere! Like the crabs in the pot of fable exactly : wherever there's a party, there's also the "complainant of the disturbance" ; wherever there's stone upon stone and therefore the possibility, however vague, of social intercourse -- there's the guardian of "what the state said on facebook". Everybody's perfectly happy with every statal "policy", no matter how perfectly deranged, because hey, the mega-corporation has the perfect and complete excuse : an "emergency" in name only, and otherwise in practice lasting for years and, as far as the state's concerned, ongoing hopefully forever.

Yet the value of reality comes precisely from its inadherence to emulation...