This is always it. There's no time and place without the threat of dictatorship. There's always evil around you, near you, to be fought or else someone else will have to fight it, or you again - but much stronger.

Western underground counterculture of 70s and 80s was very good in the sense of understanding this, the general anti-war fuck-your-pretense rock-n-roll arrest-me-officer mood, unfortunately in the 90s people got complacent.

Same with critical\progressive worldview, it got neutered, diluted, saturated with "normal", "allowed", "by the rules" struggle for the rights of protected groups and cancelling bad people from among celebrities.

While logically intersectionality dictates that your first duty as a citizen is to look for more basic dangers, and react to them not "by the rules", but with Molotov cocktails and sabotage.

Journalism "by the rules" is just PR, protest "by the rules" is just fashion, and politics "by the rules" is just collaborationism.

OK, it was very brave (/s) from me to write this, but living in Moscow, Russia, I suppose this is just talk.