Is totalitarianism a good thing
or a bad thing? Hold back your outrage for now. What is totalitarianism – not
in the eyes of its vehement detractors, but in the eyes of its most reasonable
promoters?..
Forget the latter, though. Any
open form of defense of philosophical totalitarianism has been effectively criminalized
in our clueless time. But of course all sorts of roundabout movements abound
and flourish. Human thought has little tolerance for thought disciplinarians.
What is the difference between
patriotism and nationalism? Is it good or bad to put your country first? – “Good
or bad, it’s my country”?..
Unity or diversity?..
Grant me one thing. The issues
involved here are more complex than what propaganda and conventional wisdom
would like us to subscribe to. One does not have to be a fascist or a communist
to dignify this issue with serious and
hopefully unprejudiced consideration. In fact, the issue of totalitarianism may
well be the most important stumbling block in all political science, and by far
the most important bone of contention in all political philosophy. All the more
so that modern society is being constantly bombarded by the onslaught of
globalism, bringing its latent totalitarian tendency first back to life and
next to the fore…
Surprised? Perhaps modern
political science (I am afraid that political philosophy as such has not survived
the twentieth century) is doing a lousy job, to keep you unsurprised. Perhaps political
science doesn’t do its job at all…
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