Totalitarian
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This recalls the American political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski’s observation in the 1950s that
totalitarian
regimes (in contrast to authoritarian ones) impose both prohibitions and imperatives on citizens.
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Now we all, or a big part of us, use Gmail or one of their competitors, but these services are especially popular in
totalitarian
states like Iran, where dissidents use foreign services like Gmail because they know they are more trustworthy than the local services and they are encrypted over SSL connections, so the local government can't snoop on their discussions.
So Western governments are providing
totalitarian
governments with tools to do this against their own citizens.
We identify with the guru who tells us what to do, self-help therapist, or we embrace a
totalitarian
leader who appears to have no doubts about choices, who sort of knows.
The East Germans knew, of course, that they were surrounded by informers, in a
totalitarian
regime that created mistrust and a state of widespread fear, the most important tools to oppress people in any dictatorship.
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