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September 25, 2011

The Ideology of Totalitarian Humanism

Nowadays, the laundry list of "poverty, racism, sexism, illness, and drugs" might be lengthened to include

and other creative efforts at dictionary expansion. Likewise, the therapeutic component of totalitarian humanism has expanded so as to include the supposed necessity of state action to save us all from fatty foods, salt, smoking, and soda vending machines in public schools. Like all totalitarian ideologies, totalitarian humanism has its contradictions, hypocrisies, and absurdities. For instance, public acts of anal intercourse are regarded as virtuous and courageous manifestations of human liberation and personal fulfillment, while smoking in bars or even in strip clubs is a grave menace to public health. --Keith Preston

Posted by Vanderleun at September 25, 2011 11:58 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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