Why not “liberal-democratic freedom utopias” like Canada, Finland, or Switzerland, but the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea?

 Why not “liberal-democratic freedom utopias” like Canada, Finland, or Switzerland, but the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea? Not because of politics, but because these regimes represent: extreme intensity (bloody power struggles), self-reliance (self-sustaining economies instead of interdependence), necessity (being this way because their very nature permits no other way), secrecy (lack of noteworthy information for outsiders), control (state monitoring all aspects of life), adversity (international boycotts and sanctions), exile from convention (lack of compatibility with the international community), identity masking (state propaganda and media), brutal honesty (lack of Western-style hypocrisy), alternative reality (creating their own worlds instead of submitting to the outer one), aesthetic utopia (art inseparable from structure), total vision (lack of urge to erase themselves), and so on. These reflect my soul’s own architecture: depth, secrecy, control, adversity, symbolism, aestheticism, perfectionism, totality, indirectness, obsessiveness, defiance, resilience, alienation, discipline, self-containment, self-surveillance, dreamlike state, persistent detachment, mental independence, intellectual isolation, emotional austerity, uncompromising will, reality-building, artistic absolutism, existential solitude, permanent exile, psychic fortification, strategic identity, self-forged mind, refusal to perform, rich inner life, growth under pressure, deviation from the norm, purge of social noise, unyielding design by nature, disgust for modernity, and so on. People may think “I love tyrants because I blind myself to their tyranny.” And with that, they prove only two things: first, that they see those states through a flat, linear, and materialist lens; and second, that they still do not understand me, because I do not care about praising regimes but use them as perfect allergories. They don’t know that propaganda is an art form, and that it exists in its most intense and obvious form in these states. And within me lies the ability to see the deepest beauty of such oppression, a capacity no ordinary eye possesses.