Some people grow so accustomed to following orders that without them, they are utterly lost.
For others, desires suppressed for hundreds of years suddenly erupt, turning them into tyrants more fearsome than their former rulers.
A classic example is the aftermath of the collapse of a major Eastern European power.
People who had spent their entire lives under a command economy were suddenly confronted with a market economy and had no idea what to do.
Some sold off factory equipment as scrap metal to buy alcohol.
Some carved up state assets, becoming the new elite.
Some, under the banner of freedom, re-established an oligarchy even more brutal than the old regime.
Why?
Because when people who have been deprived of the ability to think independently for a long time are suddenly granted freedom, they often become more frenzied, more shortsighted, and more easily swayed than those who were never enslaved.
