Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.
- Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology, 1948
And I'd rather live under omnipotent moral busybodies than a managerial technocracy. At least with a moral busybody there's a humanity you can appeal to.
C.S. Lewis can be forgiven for this omission though, as managerial technocracies were still in their infancy when he wrote this.
Our current moral busybodies turned a blind eye to months of violent unrest only to then unequivocally condemn an unarmed riot and anyone who doesn't want an experimental therapeutic created by an evil corporation. And when I say condemn, I mean "wish death upon". Forgive me if I find your claims of humanity somewhat questionable.
THEY HAD ROPES AND PEPPER SPRAY THEY MURDERED AOC AND WERE ABOUT TO HANG TED CRUZ
That's... Pretty much exactly what I was getting at, with the comment I just wrote, literally as you posted that, lol.