The strategy of terror and love is another technique used to proselytize the masses into the totalitarian religion. Ceremonial rituals are held to honor the good will of the leaders, and continuous propaganda assures the citizens that the regime cares for them. The alternation of love and fear within an isolating environment results in a dissociated, loyal and deployable follower who can now be instructed to act in the interests of the leader rather than in his or her own survival interests.
“The State takes the place of God…the socialist dictatorships are religions and State slavery is a form of worship.” Carl Jung, The Undiscovered Self Since the birth of totalitarianism in the 20th century much has been written about this form of rule and millions have read George Orwell’s depiction of it in the classic novel […]
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Is Government the New God? – The Religion of Totalitarianism first appeared on
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