Zero Sum
I was humoring you before.
What’s more likely to happen is we’d wind up like Helots and the ‘chancellor’ and his army like Spartans.
They’d turn up the heat incrementally, working us harder and stripping us of what little rights and freedoms we have left, all in the name of making us and the state safer and more secure.
They’d divide and rule us, quickly quash any attempt to militarily, or intellectually organize ourselves and oppose them.
This is how they did things in Russia, China, North Korea and so on, and that is what your chancellor or his successors will subject us to, but it’ll be worse, because the economic and technological disparity between the elite and the masses is accelerating at an alarming rate.
Removing the few armaments, rights and freedoms we have, will allow them to more thoroughly subjugate the masses than any elite ever has before in history, many times over, to the point where we’re nothing more than cattle, and cattle have no hope of rebelling against their human overlords.
But the elite won’t be enslaving us to consume us, they’ll be making preparations to incrementally replace us with machines, machines, that have no agency, that won’t complain, cry out or resist, that have an off button.
Maybe a few of us will survive, and be kept as pets, or in zoos.
Perhaps a national socialist dictatorship could’ve, kind of worked out, at least for a time in previous centuries, but with the economic and technological disparity we have now, it’s absolutely paramount we cling to whatever power we have left, and attempt to increase it as much as possible.
No what we need is either anarchy, direct democracy, or perhaps a philosophical oligarchy, with some democratic checks and balances just in case, but I’d rather have the system we have now than the one you propose, which’d be an absolute nightmare of epic proportions.
I have some say, I can own a gun, I can say whatever I want, I can work for whomever I please, I can pick up and move from one place to another.
I don’t want the government to have the power to imprison or execute me just because it doesn’t like me or my politics.