re: What I've always found fascinating...
Totalitarian: completely authoritarian,autocratic, dictatorial, etc.
Autocratic:any one having unlimited power over others
Authoritarian: Enforcing unquestioning obedience to authority, rather than individual freedom of judgement and action
Dictatorial: Domineering
Black and white thinking is math and science alone...that has been established.
One must conclude that the definitions above consist of varying degrees....open to interpretation as to the level of despotism.
What I have found fascinating is why so many people want so badly to believe that accidentalism is ruling the planet