Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love Totalitarianism

Sex, Lies & the TSA

- Doug Hagmann & Joseph Hagmann
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
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The psychic fluidum- that is, the peculiar atmosphere—of totalitarian dictatorship is created by two closely related phenomena, propaganda and terror. [...] Its chief characteristic is the deliberate effort to intimidate. [...] A pervasive atmosphere of anxiety and a general sense of insecurity are the subjective concomitants of such terror. Often the victims of such terror are quite unaware of their own psychic states.
—Excerpted from Totalitarian Dictatorship & Autocracy by Carl J. FRIEDRICH and Zbigniew K. BRZEZINSKI; Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers; Second Edition © 1956. 1965 (emphasis added)

Most Americans still “don’t get it.â€