Its totalitarianism of the worst kind---as practised by Stalin in USSR, Pol Pot in Cambodia, Idi Amin in Uganda and any current, lesser-known despot you can think of.
All of these types concluded that disagreement with their views was not an option and proceeded to kill vast swathes of their own populations who might, in some unguarded moment either now or in the future, have a thought in their heads that was aquired independently of the great leader.
(Rough numbers killed: Pol Pot--2 million, Stalin--20 million, Idi Amin--500,000)
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Bernard admires and covets the raw and undisguised, murderous power that these despots wielded. He set up Desteni as his own shot at getting his hands on that power--which is the power of life or death over his followers. The money figures in it too, but the dream of total control that is such murderous power is the real, potent intoxicator.
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