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On Totalitarianism
Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 8:20 pm
by Typhoon
Tip of the hat to a friend:
Standpoint | Blood and Lies Behind the Iron Curtain
"By trying to control every aspect of society, the regimes had turned every aspect of society into a potential form of protest."
Re: On Totalitarianism
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 4:30 am
by Skin Job
A venerable cartoon version, chock-full of sarcasm and gallows humor:
http://redprimer.com/
Re: On Totalitarianism
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 6:24 am
by Typhoon
Skin Job wrote:A venerable cartoon version, chock-full of sarcasm and gallows humor:
http://redprimer.com/
Very good. Thanks for the link.
Gallows humour is one thing that was manufactured in abundance behind the Iron Curtain.
Probably the best analysis that I've read to-date is
The Captive Mind by
Czesław Miłosz.
Re: On Totalitarianism
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 2:59 pm
by noddy
"By trying to control every aspect of society, the regimes had turned every aspect of society into a potential form of protest."
nice,i could replace ~75% of my posts with a cut n paste of that.