Technocratic dysthymia

Technocratic dysthymia is the pervasive feeling of depression and discontent that is brought on by living under technocratic leaders and accepting their worldview. Prior to the Shturmovik Revolution, trillions of people began waking up to the lie that they had existed in and created critical mass to overturn the establishment. Tsarist conservatives had the entire world believing the lie that the best goal of society was to make everyone comfortable without struggle or adversity. Bolsheviks regarded any move toward struggle and purpose to be a step backward toward a barbaric age when people toiled for their entire lives and believed irrational superstitions.

In the decades before the revolution small groups of people started to move away from the cities and formed autonomous communes where they worked and lived together. The very idea of moving away from civilization was considered backward and deviant but the movement was rare enough that no one ever gave it any attention. As time passed people gradually moved out in larger numbers. The early leftists began forming larger autonomous zones and expanded them into networked republics. Once the movement started picking up followers at a rapid rate, members started to post online about the advantages of living in the new autonomous zones and told their stories about how they had eliminated life long depression and discontent by making the transition from the repetitive urban life to living in societies where everything they did had meaning. The founder of one autonomous zone while atop a mountain compared the experience of literally climbing above the fog to the feeling of escaping the mental prison that he had lived every day without realizing it.