I think why I keep coming back to my series on the politics of a fictional Moon Kingdom is how it highlights that problem. You start with someone who essentially a perfect, Hobbesian Leviathan as monarch... then what? You still can't give everyone what they want all the time. You still have culture and language causing growth and conflict. And you still have politics, because even the twin principles of "love and justice" come into conflict with each other.
But to answer the question: most authoritarians think that. The most core belief of fascism is: There was some fictional golden age in the past, then some outsiders intervened, and if we can restore it everything will be perfect and history will end. This of course, is stupid. Any religious scholar can tell you that Genesis 3 is not a bell that we can unring, that human attempts to build to utopia will fail (Genesis 11). Which is all to say that people have been thinking about this problem for a very long time, and the true answer is a well known quantity to anyone who is not an idiot.
But to answer the question: most authoritarians think that. The most core belief of fascism is: There was some fictional golden age in the past, then some outsiders intervened, and if we can restore it everything will be perfect and history will end. This of course, is stupid. Any religious scholar can tell you that Genesis 3 is not a bell that we can unring, that human attempts to build to utopia will fail (Genesis 11). Which is all to say that people have been thinking about this problem for a very long time, and the true answer is a well known quantity to anyone who is not an idiot.
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto