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What is totalitarianism and how does it operate?
There is a commonality between the worst of the 20th century regimes that is not often discussed. From crisis, propaganda, manufactured enemies and two-tier justice to surveillance, institutional capture, atomization and the destruction of competing loyalties, I outline the playbook.
Finally, I look at what happens when truth can no longer travel upward, the warning signs to watch for, and what individuals can do to resist the lie.
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00:00 Intro
01:41 Dictatorship vs. Totalitarianism
06:25 When Doctrine Becomes Total
08:51 Ressentiment and the True Believer
11:19 Crisis Creates the Opening
16:07 The Permanent Enemy
18:29 The Hollow Individual
23:15 Loneliness and the Totalitarian Man
25:41 Propaganda and Political Language
30:20 Doublethink and Paramoralisms
32:43 The Censor Inside Your Head
35:10 No Freedom of Silence
37:30 Rewriting the Past
42:13 Manufacturing Enemies
44:32 Mao’s Anti-Rightist Campaign
51:27 Two-Tier Justice
58:28 Pathocracy and Negative Selection
01:05:32 Forced Complicity
01:10:14 Dependency and the Command Economy
01:12:37 Surveillance and the Stasi
01:17:31 Why the Family Matters
01:22:10 When the Regime Goes Blind
01:26:58 Six Diagnostic Questions
01:31:38 The Antidote to Totalitarianism
01:34:01 Seven Types Under a Totalitarian System
01:36:23 Resistance Starts With the Individual
01:41:13 The Totalitarian Playbook Recapped
01:43:34 Technology Raises the Stakes
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