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September 9, 2016

Totalitarianism was much more than state terror, censorship, and concentration camps;

it was a state of mind in which the very idea of a private opinion or point of view had been destroyed.
The totalitarian propagandist forces people to believe that slavery is freedom, squalor is bounty, ignorance is knowledge, and that a rigidly closed society is the most open in the world. And once enough people are made to think this way, it is functionally totalitarian even if a single dictator does not personally control everything. November 1999 | American Renaissance

Posted by gerardvanderleun at September 9, 2016 9:30 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission.
Ayn Rand

Posted by: Bill Jones at September 9, 2016 2:27 PM

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