A totalitarian society is one in which an ideology seeks to displace all prior traditions and institutions. A totalitarian state aspires to nothing less than defining and controlling reality. Totalitarian hell proves only that the power of man is greater than they ever dared to think, writes Hannah Arendt. The controlling mind of the totalitarian foresees a paradise in which every action and every object is monitored, labeled and controlled.
“Humanity is arming itself, in dread and fascinated horror, for a stupendous crime.” Carl Jung, Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious While we cannot create a heaven on earth, we can create a hell and history is full of examples. Many of these man-made hells are the result of war and conquest, but many others are […]
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