Totalitarianism

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...under totalitarian rule an entire society must be healed.

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All the long years when the hopeless war dragged along we, unassuming,
forgotten in quiet,
Endured without question, endured in our loneliness all your incessant
child's antics and riot.
Our lips we kept tied, though aching with silence, though well all the
while in our silence we knew
How wretchedly everything still was progressing by listening dumbly the
day long to you.

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The old order insisted that their way must prevail above all others. If this could not be, then, rather than go forward in the interest of progress and humanity, the clock must be turned back. This would be done regardless of any ensuing chaos or the threat of a new Dark Age which could descend upon the world.

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...the horrible practices the world encountered in Spain, in Germany and occupied Europe, and in Soviet Russia weren't entirely the product of a few very evil regimes, but resulted from the development of the State itself and would not go away with the defeat or collapse of those regimes.

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For he that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read but the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary. He that would have been insolent and injurious in the woods of America would not probably be much better on a throne, where perhaps learning and religion shall be found out to justify all that he shall do to his subjects, and the sword presently silence all those that dare question it.

Chronology :

April 09, 2020 : Totalitarianism -- Added.

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