Totalitarians see the earth as a garden to which they are anointed to cultivate, and sinners as weeds that must be exterminated. Like all fanatical religions, totalitarian movements seek to control the innermost thoughts of its followers. In pursuit of this totalitarian religious transformation, various proselytizing methods are used. Two of these are demagogy and pedagogy. The former being the spreading of state propaganda through art, literature, music, plays and festivals.

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