Misconception of how authoritarian governments work. Restaurants, parks, bars, etc all keep existing and working as normal. You have shows and music and books still. You even have internet and electronic devices. The difference is that you have to toe the line in what you say. The art is all controlled by the gorvernment and the internet is firewalled to be local only. If you are a very conformist person you might not even notice at all that you live in an authoritarian government. The average guy who wakes up, goes to work, gets home watches tv and during the weekend watches sports, maybe goes out with the family; the kind that never quite knows what’s going on in the economy or politics, he only knows things are expensive or cheap and that’s the extent of his capacity for political judgement; would downright be ok with the authoritarian government because he doesn’t realize that it is, and he doesn’t feel a difference whether it is or not.
Apathy is the real enemy of democracy.