totalitarianism

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is a primitive impulse, the longing to return to the narcotic peace of society's version of truth and reality, where we no longer have to cope with the conflicts of intellectual freedom and social concern.

the primitive impulse, the longing to return to the narcotic peace of society's version of truth and reality, where we no longer have to cope with the conflicts of intellectual freedom and social concern.

is an ideology wherein terror is transformed from a political means to a political end in itself.

Arendt argues that totalitarian ideologies changed against the backdrop of WWI, the Great Depression, and revolutionary unrest. 'The rise of totalitarianism was thus to be understood in light of the accumulation of pathologies that had undermined the conditions of possibility for a viable public life that could unite citizens, while simultaneously preserving their liberty and uniqueness (a condition that Arendt referred to as 'plurality')' (http://www.iep.utm.edu/arendt/#4aiii)

is never content to rule by external means (i.e. The state and a machinery of violence)... rather it dominates and terrorizing human beings from within.

Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence... thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within. (Hannah Arendt)

is only possible in specifically modern society where everything -including our sense of reality -is managed.

Totalitarianism is only possible in specifically modern society where everything -including our sense of reality -is managed. People are deracinated and endlessly manipulated. In particular totalitarianism feeds on the isolation of modern humanity and its sense of homelessness:

is possible only because loneliness has become an everyday experience of the ever growing masses of our century.

What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world is the fact that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal social conditions like old age, has become an everyday experience of the ever growing masses of our century.

is possible only under the conditions of modernity, because, in order to take hold, it requires a huge mass of 'atomized, isolated individuals'.

Before totalitarianism takes hold it requires a huge mass of 'atomized, isolated individuals.' it is therefore possible only under the conditions of modernity.

, if not fought against, could triumph again.

And I believe that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph again. George Orwell

 feeds on the isolation of modern humanity and its sense of homelessness.

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