Totalitarianism and Nihilism

The desire to eliminate the unknown and just live with a known. Is that what leads to authoritarian, totalitarian states? Many young people are trapped by their own ration ity into either a totalitarian viewpoint or a nihilistic viewpoint. And i think it's all so terribly pernicious for someone who's just in the formative stages of adulthood to say, oh, you're ok the way you are," says Csan.